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

beetle Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...

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

. It may refer to: *

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-Krasn ...

Zhuk class patrol boat The Zhuk-class patrol boat, Soviet designation Project 1400 "Grif", is a class of small border patrol vessels built in the Soviet Union and its successor states. Over 300 boats were built between 1969 and 1991. The vessels were primarily used by ...

, Soviet and Russian patrol boat manufactured from 1970 to 1996 *

Zhuk radar The Zhuk are a family of Russian (former USSR) all-weather multimode airborne radars developed by NIIR Phazotron for multi-role combat aircraft such as the MiG-29. The PESA versions were also known as Sokol. Description The Zhuk (Beetle) fami ...

, 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 The Żuk (polish language, pl. ''beetle'') is a van and light truck produced in Lublin, Poland, between 1958 and 1998 by Fabryka Samochodów Ciężarowych, FSC. It was based on FSO Warszawa, which in turn was licensed from the Soviet passenger ...

, a van and light truck produced in Lublin, Poland *

Żuk Nowy Żuk Nowy 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, and north-east of the regional capital R ...

, a village in Poland *

Żuk Stary Żuk Stary 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, and north-east of the regional capita ...

, a village in Poland *

BŻ-4 Żuk The BŻ-4 Żuk ("Beetle" in Polish), formerly known as GIL-4, was a Polish four-seat light helicopter built in the 1950s. Although it pioneered a novel rotor and transmission system, it never entered series production. Design and development Wor ...

, a Polish helicopter

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