Nauris Bulvëtis (born 15 March 1987) is a Latvian footballer who plays as a defender for FK Spartaks Jà «rmala.
Bulvëtis started his professional career in 2007 with Daugava Daugavpils. Having played there for one season, he made 7 league appearances and scored no goals. In 2008, he had a one-year spell in the Lithuanian A Lyga with à  iauliai, playing 21 games and scoring once. In 2009 Bulvëtis returned to his homeland, signing a contract with Tranzit. That season he played 17 matches and scored 1 goal in the Latvian Higher League, before being loaned to the Scottish First Division side Inverness Caledonian Thistle. He signed on loan until January 2010 after a successful trial spell at the club. He was recommended to join the club by fellow Latvian and former Inverness defender PÃÂvels Mihadjuks. Bulvëtis made his debut for Caley Thistle in a Scottish League Cup match against Annan Athletic. He scored his first goal against Stranraer in the League cup. FC Tranzit permitted Bulvëtis to extend his loan spell at Caley until the end of the season. Bulvëtis left Inverness at the end of the 2009âÂÂ10 season.
Bulvitis signed for the Latvian Higher League club Ventspils before the start of the Eurocups. He played 10 matches for Ventspils, scoring no goals. In January 2011 he went on trial with the Slovak Super Liga club Spartak Trnava and signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with them. Because of a long-term injury he was released by the Slovak side in the middle of 2011. Bulvëtis then returned to Latvia, joining Spartaks Jà «rmala. During three seasons with the club he scored nine goals in 56 league matches. In July 2013 Bulvëtis joined Skonto Riga on a three-year contract. He played 15 league matches and scored three goals for the club before leaving the club in January 2014 due to a long-term delay of salary payment. On 24 January 2014 Bulvëtis signed a one-year contract with the Swiss Super League club Aarau with an option to extend it for another season. In April 2014 his contract was extended for another year. During his first season in the Swiss Super League Bulvëtis played 18 matches, scoring no goals.
In February 2016, Bulvëtis went on trial with Kazakhstan Premier League side Shakhter Karagandy.
On 29 June 2016, Plymouth Argyle confirmed Bulvëtis as a new signing. Bulvitis had scored all 3 of his Argyle goals in the month of August, netting his first in a 2âÂÂ1 win away to Notts County, quickly followed by the only goal in a 1âÂÂ0 win away to Blackpool, and then another goal in a 4âÂÂ1 EFL Trophy game at home to Newport County. This early season run of form saw Bulvëtis make an appearance as an auxiliary striker in Argyle's 1âÂÂ0 defeat to Liverpool in an FA Cup third round replay. Bulvëtis' back half of the season was plagued with injury problems as he eventually lost his centre half place to January signing Jakub SokolÃÂk. At the end of a promotion winning 2016âÂÂ17 season, Bulvëtis was released by Argyle along with eight other professionals.
In September 2017, Bulvëtis re-signed for Virslëga side Ventspils in his native Latvia, making 6 appearances between then and the end of the season in November as Ventspils came 4th in the Latvian Higher League on goal difference. Finishing 4th saw Ventspils qualify for the 2018âÂÂ19 UEFA Europa League, with Bulvëtis not featuring in their first qualifying round 8-3 aggregate win over Albanian side Luftëtari, but featuring off the bench in both legs of Ventspils' second qualifying round 3-1 aggregate defeat to French Ligue 1 side Girondins Bordeaux.
On 27 December 2018, Bulvëtis signed with Rëgas FS for the 2019 season. In January 2020, Bulvëtis returned to FK Spartaks Jà «rmala.
Bulvëtis has been capped internationally at under-19 and under-21 levels. In 2012 Latvia national football team coach Aleksandrs Starkovs called him up for the 2012 Baltic Cup. Nauris played 2 matches, helping Latvia win the tournament. Bulvëtis scored his first international goal on 6 September 2013 in a 2âÂÂ1 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match victory over Lithuania. In May 2014 he helped Latvia win the Baltic Cup for the second time in a row, scoring the only goal in a 1âÂÂ0 victory over Lithuania in the final of the tournament. As of March 2015 Bulvëtis has played 19 international matches and scored two goals for Latvia.