Stanislav Alekseyevich Zhuk (, ; 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. Tatyana Zhuk was his younger sister. Biography A native Siberian, his father, Aleksey Zhuk, returned to Ulyanovsk together with his friend Pavel Dementyev after he finished Marine military service. They were neighbors, and Aleksey 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. They began their partnership in the late 1950s. Stanislav was a very ambitious skater, whose motto was "If it's necessary, it's a must!" He wouldn't leave the ice rink if he didn't accomplish what he had planned during his training sessions. The coach trusted him with preparation of performance programs and training. In 10 years the pair won three silver medals at the European Championships and were four-time Champions of the Soviet Union. This began an era of Soviet figure skating victories worldwide. The pair performed elements during the European Championships which were deemed illegal by judges because they considered them too dangerous. "I was told that it was acrobatics. Remembering this makes me laugh. Time has passed, but the medals will never be gold," Stanislav responded. No skating team had ever performed moves with a one-handed hold before. This element is performed with direct hands in comparison with other pairs who performed it with bent hands. Mass media made a fuss about the new elements Zhuk and