Stanislav Zhuk

Stanislav Zhuk
Full nameStanislav Alekseyevich Zhuk
Born(1935-01-25)25 January 1935
Ulyanovsk, RSFSR, Soviet Union[1]
Died1 November 1998(1998-11-01) (aged 63)
Moscow, Russia[1]
Figure skating career
Country Soviet Union
CoachPyotr Orlov
Skating clubDynamo, Leningrad[1]
Retired1961
Medal record
Representing  Soviet Union
Pairs' Figure skating
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 1960 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Pairs
Silver medal – second place 1959 Davos Pairs
Silver medal – second place 1958 Bratislava Pairs
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Stanislav Alekseyevich Zhuk (Russian: Станислав Алексеевич Жук, listen; 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.