Stanislav Zhuk | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Stanislav Alekseyevich Zhuk | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Ulyanovsk, RSFSR, Soviet Union[1] | 25 January 1935||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 1 November 1998 Moscow, Russia[1] | (aged 63)||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Pyotr Orlov | ||||||||||||||||||||
Skating club | Dynamo, Leningrad[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1961 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Stanislav Alekseyevich Zhuk (Russian: Станислав Алексеевич Жук, ; 25 January 1935 – 1 November 1998) was a pair skater who represented the Soviet Union. With his wife Nina, he won three silver medals at the European Figure Skating Championships and finished sixth at the 1960 Winter Olympics.
He later went on to a long career as a coach. Among the pairs he coached were Olympic gold medalists Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev and Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov.[2] Tatyana Zhuk was his younger sister.