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Yuri Ivanovich Makarov (Ю́рий Ива́нович Мака́ров; 7 September 1934 – 2 June 2002) was one of the promoter of the shipbuilding industry of former Soviet Union. He was the director of the Black Sea Shipyard, where his most prominent contribution lies in streamlining the production of aircraft carriers.

He graduated from the Nikolaev Shipbuilding Institute in 1958 and began working at the Black Sea Shipyard. In 1979 he became the director of the Black Sea Shipyard on the recommendation of the previous director Anatoly Gankevich.

His last Kuznetsov class aircraft carrier Varyag, unfinished due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, later became the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning.