Yurij Yarin - the artist from Moscow, was born in 1958. In 1980 he graduated from the Moscow Textile university and since1981 is a member of the Union of Moscow artists.
He is engaged in painting, graphics, sculpture, mosaic, photography and batik. His works are in private collections of Russia, USA, France, Spain, Finland and Sweden.

Since 1986 he works much as a mosaicist. He created mosaic icons for Pjuhtitskij convent (Estonia), Zion cathedral in Tbilisi (Georgia) (in cooperation with A.Kornouhov), the church of St. Thomas and the church of Transfiguration in Balashiha town near Moscow, the church of St. Nicolas in Zelenograd near Moscow, the cathedral in Kuopio town (Finland), and also for private persons.
In 1998 Yurij Yarin organized the annual courses on mosaic art in the Lay Academy in the New Valamo monastery in Finland. In 2002 on the base of this courses there was found the Society of mosaicists of the Petros Sosaki in Kuopio, where he continues to teach.