Stanislav Zhuk
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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.
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Full name | Stanislav Alekseyevich Zhuk | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1935-01-25)25 January 1935 Ulyanovsk, RSFSR, Soviet Union[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 1 November 1998(1998-11-01) (aged 63) Moscow, Russia[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Pyotr Orlov | ||||||||||||||||||||
Skating club | Dynamo, Leningrad[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1961 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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.