Zhuk (Cyrillic: Жук), Žuk, or Żuk (Polish), means ''

beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

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Slavic languages The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the Ear ...

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Zhuk (surname) Zhuk (Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian: Жук) is a gender-neutral surname derived from a Slavic word meaning beetle. Notable people with the surname include: * Aleksey Zhuk (born 1955), former Soviet/Russian handball player *Angelina Zhuk-Krasno ...

* Zhuk class patrol boat, Soviet and Russian patrol boat manufactured from 1970 to 1996 * Zhuk radar, family of Russian airborne radars developed by NIIR Phazotron for multi-role combat aircraft such as the MiG-29 and the Su-27 * FSC Żuk, a van and light truck produced in Lublin, Poland *

Żuk Nowy Żuk Nowy ( uk, Новий Жук, ''Novyi Zhuk'') is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Harasiuki, within Nisko County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately west of Harasiuki, east of Nisko, a ...

, a village in Poland *

Żuk Stary Żuk Stary ( uk, Старий Жук, ''Staryi Zhuk'') is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Harasiuki, within Nisko County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately west of Harasiuki, east of Nisk ...

, a village in Poland * BŻ-4 Żuk, a Polish helicopter

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