Nina Zhuk | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Nina Alexeevna Zhuk | ||||||||||||||||||||
Other names | Nina Alexeevna Bakusheva | ||||||||||||||||||||
Figure skating career | |||||||||||||||||||||
Country | Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Pyotr Orlov | ||||||||||||||||||||
Skating club | Dynamo, Leningrad | ||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1961 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Nina Alexeevna Zhuk (nee: Bakusheva) (Russian: Нина Алексеевна Жук (Бакушева); born 9 July 1934 in Savino, Yaroslavl Oblast) is a retired pair skater who represented the Soviet Union in competition. With her husband Stanislav Zhuk, she is the 1958-1960 European silver medalist. They placed 6th at the 1960 Winter Olympics.