Yury Grigoryan is a Russian architect, graphic designer, artist, educator, social activist; in 1998, he founded the Meganom Bureau in partnership with Ilya Kuleshov, Aleksandra Pavlova, and Pavel Ivanchikov.
Fr om 2011 to 2014, he was a director of the educational program at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design. Apart from his duties managing the office, Grigoryan also regularly gives lectures, gives speeches at conferences and takes an active part in the development of architectural thinking in Moscow. In 1991, Grigoryan graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute, wh ere he is currently giving a course on architectural design.