Stanislav Zhuk
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| Full name | Stanislav Alekseevich Zhuk | ||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |
 Soviet Union
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January 25, 1935 Ulyanovsk |
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| Died | November 1, 1998 (aged 63) Moscow |
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| Former partner | Nina Zhuk | ||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | Dynamo, Leningrad | ||||||||||||||||||
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Stanislav Alekseevich Zhuk (Russian: Станислав Алексеевич Жук, 
listen ) (January 25, 1935, Ulyanovsk – November 1, 1998, Moscow) was a pair skater who represented the Soviet Union. With partner and 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.
Stanslav Zhuk is a native Siberian. His father, Alexey Zhuk, returned to Ulyanovsk together with his friend Pavel Dementyev after he finished Marine military service. They were neighbors, and Alexey met Pavel's sister Maria. They immediately fell in love and soon married. Stanislav Zhuk was born on 25 January 1935 into a family of naval officers in Ulyanovsk. This military life caused the family to move a lot.
The sport of figure skating underwent a revival in late-1940s Leningrad, and Stanislav started skating. Many of the most promising students of the Pioneers Palace section were in the department of Dinamo physical culture and sports club. The most powerful Soviet Union figure skating team formed there under the leadership of coach Peter Orlov, the Master of Sports. Orlov met Stanislav while he was studying in the physical training college. He offered him a skating partnership with Nina Bakusheva, a ladies singles skater from Leningrad.
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