Irina Vladimirovna Zhuk (; born 3 December 1966) is a Russian

ice dancing Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. A ...

coach and a former competitor for the

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. With

Oleg Petrov Oleg Viktorovich Petrov (''Олег Викторович Петров''; born April 18, 1971) is a Russian former ice hockey right winger. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1992 and 2003. Professional career Petrov was drafte ...

, she is the 1985 Skate America silver medalist.

Personal life

Irina Vladimirovna Zhuk was born on 3 December 1966 in

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, Soviet Union. She is married to former Soviet ice dancer Alexander Svinin.

Career

Zhuk competed with Oleg Petrov for the Soviet Union. Together, they won gold at the 1984 Grand Prix International St. Gervais, silver at the 1984

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, and silver at the 1985 Skate America. After retiring from competition, they performed in ice shows in England and the United States. In collaboration with Alexander Svinin, Zhuk began working as a coach and choreographer at

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's Sokolniki ice rink. In 2010, they accepted an offer to move to a new rink, Mechta in the

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of Moscow. Zhuk and Svinin's current students include: *

Alexandra Stepanova Alexandra Nikolayevna Stepanova (; born 19 August 1995) is a Russian ice dancer. With her skating partner, Ivan Bukin, she is a five-time European medalist (silver in 2019 European Figure Skating Championships, 2019 an2022 bronze in 2015 Europe ...

/ Ivan Bukin * Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko * Elizaveta Shanaeva / Devid Naryzhnyy * Sofya Leonteva / Daniil Gorelkin Their former students include: * Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov * Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski * Daria Morozova / Mikhail Zhirnov * Ekaterina Rubleva / Ivan Shefer * Ekaterina Pushkash / Jonathan Guerreiro (May 2009 – spring 2010) * Anastasia Shpilevaya /

Grigory Smirnov Grigory Sergeyevich Smirnov (, born 1 April 1997) is a Russian retired ice dancer who competed for the United States. With his former skating partner, Anastasia Shpilevaya, competing for Russia, he is the 2019 Bavarian Open champion, 2016 Youth ...

* Valeria Starygina / Ivan Volobuiev * Valeria Loseva / Denis Lunin * Eva Khachaturian / Igor Eremenko *

Anna Yanovskaya Anna Sviatoslavovna Yanovskaya (; born 23 November 1996) is a Russian ice dancer. Competing for Hungary with Ádám Lukács, she is a three-time Hungarian national champion (2018–19, 2021) and has competed in the final segment at three ISU ...

/ Ivan Gurianov

Competitive highlights

(with Petrov)

References

External links

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