Kryukov
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Kryukov and Kryukova is a common Russian
Russians
The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....

 surname derived from the word "" (kryuk). While the literal meaning of the word is "hook", the surname stems from the figurative meaning of "finicky person", a "quibbler", but also a "stoop-shouldered person".

People with this surname include:
  • Aleksandr Kryukov
    Aleksandr Kryukov
    Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kryukov is a Russian professional football coach and a former player.-External links:*...

     (born 1956), Soviet and Russian footballer and coach
  • Andrei Krukov
    Andrei Krukov
    Andrei Krukov is a pair skater who competed internationally for both Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. He competed through 1998 with Marina Khalturina for Kazakhstan. They placed 14th at the 1998 Winter Olympics...

     (born 1971), Kazakh and Azerbaijani skater
  • Artem Kryukov
    Artem Kryukov
    Artem Kryukov is a professional ice hockey forward. He was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres in the first round, 15th overall, of the 2000 NHL Entry Draft....

     (born 1982), Russian ice hockey player
  • Fyodor Kryukov
    Fyodor Kryukov
    Fyodor Dmitrievich Kryukov February 1870 — 4 March 1920) was a Cossack writer and soldier in the White Army, died in 1920 of Typhoid fever. Various literary critics, most notably Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Roy Medvedev, claimed that Mikhail Sholokov plagiarised his work in order to write major...

     (1870–1920), Russian writer and soldier
  • Mikhail Kryukov
    Mikhail Kryukov
    Mikhail Kryukov is an anthropologist and historian.Born in Moscow, Kryukov attended Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, where he received a B.A. in 1954. He earned an M.A. in 1955 from Moscow Institute of International Relations, and from the Peking University in 1962. He earned a Ph.D. degree...

     (born 1932), Soviet and Russian anthropologist and historian
  • Nikolai Kryukov
    Nikolai Kryukov
    Nikolai Vyacheslavovich Kryukov is a Russian artistic gymnast. A three-time Olympian, he was also the World Artistic Gymnastics All-Around Champion at the 1999 World Gymnastics Championships in Tianjin, China.-External links:*...

     (born 1978), Russian artistic gymnast
  • Nikolay Nikolayevich Kryukov, Soviet composer
  • Sergey Kryukov
    Sergey Kryukov
    Sergey Nikolayevich Kryukov is a Russian diplomat and is currently the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Zimbabwe, with concurrent accreditation to Malawi.-References:...

    , Russian diplomat
  • Vladimir Kryukov
    Vladimir Kryukov
    Vladimir Nikolaevich Kryukov is a Russian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1956 Summer Olympics.In 1952 he won the silver medal as crew member of the Soviet boat in the eights event....

     (born 1925), Soviet rower
  • Yevgeni Kryukov
    Yevgeni Kryukov
    Yevgeni Vladimirovich Kryukov is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. As of 2009, he manages the youth team of FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1981 for FC Torpedo Rubtsovsk....

    (born 1963), Soviet and Russian footballer and coach
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