Yulia Grigorova Gurkovska (1945–2001), was a Bulgarian sailor and sound editor and, for a few years, the chief of staff of the country's President Zhelyu Zhelev.

Yulia (sometimes spelled Julia and sometimes shortened to Ju) was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 7 June 1945 as the daughter of Grigor Gurkovski, secretary of the Bulgarian Agricultural People's Union who was arrested after the communist coup on 9 September 1944 and spent 11 years in a concentration camp.

Yulia Gurkovska graduated from the State Conservatory (1968)[1] and began working as a music designer and sound engineer at the Studio for Popular Science Films "Vreme" in 1969.

In 1978, on the two-masted yacht "Tivia" owned by the Bulgarian National Television (BNT), the husband and wife team, with their daughter Yana (5 years old), the television journalist and traveler Simeon Idakiev and his colleagues from BNT Boris Siriyski, Rumen Kostov, Petar Andonov  sailed around Europe (5,000 nautical miles).

Gurkovska was a member of the Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers (SBFD) and for 22 years was a sound engineer at the "Vreme" Studio for Popular Science Films.