Yuri Aramaisovich Yerznkyan (Armenian: Յուրի Արամայիսի Երզնկյան; Russian: Юрий Арамаисович Ерзинкян; 26 January 1922 – 19 December 1996) was a Soviet Armenian film director and actor.

In 1943, he moved to Yerevan in Armenia, where he worked at Hayfilm, first as an actor and then as a film director.

He started his own directorial work in 1953, in Yerevan, and in 1982 was appointed as the head of directing faculty of the Armenian State Pedagogical University.

Earlier in 1975 Yerznkyan was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Armenian SSR.

[1] Yerznkyan had a daughter, Anna, and a son, Ruben; both children headed cinematography-related departments at the Armenian State Pedagogical University.