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Yuriy Volodymyrovych Hura (Ukrainian: Юрій Володимирович Гура; born 8 August 1976) is a Ukrainian former professional football midfielder and manager. He is the current head coach of Sheriff Tiraspol.

Hura started out playing in youth clubs of Oleksandriya in Central Ukraine and later joined city's main club Polihraftekhnika.

In 2000s he moved to Kazakhstan and for almost a decade disappeared from the Ukrainian football.

In 2008 he returned to his home country playing in amateur competitions and eventually joined the newly created club UkrAhroKom Holovkivka from Oleksandriya suburbs.

At the end of 2010, Hura announced his retirement from playing career and became the head coach of the amateur club UkrAhroKom Holovkivka where he finished his playing career. During his term as head coach of the small club Hura managed to bring them from amateurs to the second professional tier Ukrainian First League.

Following completion of the 2013–14 season, UkrAhroKom Holovkivka was merged with PFC Oleksandriya to form Oleksandriya and Hura joined the coaching staff of new club coaching youth reserve. After dismissal of Volodymyr Sharan in May 2021 Hura became the head coach of Oleksandriya.^[1]

• Kirovohrad Oblast Championship: 1993–94

• Kazakhstan Premier League: 2001
• Kazakhstan Cup: 2000–01

• Krasnodar Krai Cup: 2002
• Krasnodar Krai Super Cup: 2002
• Krasnodar Krai Championship runner-up: 2002

• Chernihiv Oblast Cup runner-up: 2003

• Cherkasy Oblast Cup: 2008
• Cherkasy Oblast Championship runner-up: 2008

• Kirovohrad Oblast Cup: 2009
• Kirovohrad Oblast Championship runner-up: 2009

• Ukrainian Second League runner-up: 2012–13

• Yuriy Hura at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)
• Yuriy Hura at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)