Yar, Yare or Yars may refer to:

Geography

Yar, Russia Yar (russian: Яр) is the name of several rural localities in Russia: * Yar, Baykalovsky District, Sverdlovsk Oblast, a village in Baykalovsky District, Sverdlovsk Oblast * Yar, Talitsky District, Sverdlovsk Oblast, a '' selo'' in Talitsky Distr ...

, name of several inhabited localities in Russia * Babi Yar, a ravine in Kyiv where mass murders took place during World War II *

Eastern Yar The River Yar on the Isle of Wight, England, rises in a chalk coomb in St. Catherine's Down near Niton, close to the southern tip of the island. It flows across the Lower Cretaceous rocks of the eastern side of the island, through the gap ...

, a river on the Isle of Wight, England *

Western Yar The River Yar on the Isle of Wight, England, rises near the beach at Freshwater Bay, on the south coast, and flows only a few miles north to Yarmouth where it meets the Solent. Most of the river is a tidal estuary. Its headwaters have been tru ...

, a river on the Isle of Wight, England *

River Yare The River Yare is a river in the English county of Norfolk. In its lower reaches it is one of the principal navigable waterways of The Broads and connects with the rest of the network. The river rises south of Dereham to the west to the villag ...

, a river in East Anglia, England *

Yemen Arab Republic The Yemen Arab Republic (YAR; ar, الجمهورية العربية اليمنية '), also known simply as North Yemen or Yemen (Sanaʽa), was a country from 1962 to 1990 in the northwestern part of what is now Yemen.The United States extend ...

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Enterprises

* Yar (restaurant), Moscow

Art, entertainment, and media

* Tasha Yar, a fictional character on ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' * Yar, the hero in the video game ''

Yars' Revenge ''Yars' Revenge'' is a video game released for the Atari 2600 in 1982. It was created by Howard Scott Warshaw and is Atari's best-selling original game for the 2600. Gameplay The player controls an insect-like creature called a Yar who must n ...

'' *Yar, a lemur in the 2000 Disney animated film ''

Dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is t ...

Biology

Yar (gene) In molecular biology, Yar (yellow-achaete intergenic RNA) is a long non-coding RNA found in ''Drosophila''. It is located within a neuronal gene cluster between the yellow and achaete genes. It is found in the cytoplasm of cells and is required for ...

, a long non-coding RNA gene found in ''Drosophila'' *

YARS Tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase, cytoplasmic, also known as Tyrosine-tRNA ligase, is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''YARS'' gene. Living cells translate DNA sequences into RNA sequences and then into protein sequences. Proteins are chains ...

, an enzyme in humans encoded by the YARS gene * {{Disambiguation