title: Valerij
text: # Valerij
  
  Valerij is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
  
  * Valerij Popov, Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1999. Popov won the championship
  * Valerij Zhuravliov, Soviet/Latvian chess master
  * Valerij Verhušin, Macedonian wrestler
  