Aleksey Vladimirovich Zhuk (russian: Алексей Владимирович Жук, born November 6, 1955) is a former

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

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handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

player who competed in the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...

. In 1980 he won the silver medal with the Soviet team. He played all six matches and scored twenty goals. He was a handball player for

CSKA Moscow CSKA Moscow (russian: ЦСКА Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. It was created in 1911 in the Russian Empire on base of OLLS (Skiing Society, founded 1901). Later, during the Soviet Union, Soviet era, it was a central piece ...

between 1974 and 1987, and since 1987 he served in the administrative side of CSKA. He is the head trainer and chief of CSKA

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

team since 1994. He is also an adviser to the general director of Alexander Ostrovsky Academy in sports issues.

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The coaching staff of AOA
1955 births Living people Soviet male handball players Russian male handball players Handball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for the Soviet Union Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics {{USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub