Sergey Yakovlevich Zhuk (Russian: Сергей Яковлевич Жук; April 4, 1892 – March 1, 1957) was a Soviet hydraulic engineer, technician and state official.

In 1914 he enrolled in the Petrograd Institute for Civil Engineers, a year later he moved to the State University of Transportation in St. Petersburg.

Due to the great losses that the Russian army suffered in fighting with German troops, Zhuk was forcibly drafted and transferred to the Alekseevsk School for Pioneers in Kyiv, whose training he completed in November 1916.

In the position of Deputy Chief Engineer of Belomorostroi, he carried out scientific and technical leadership in the design of the largest hydraulic structures.

[3] Zhuk was a participant in the Second World War, in August 1941, he was appointed chief engineer and deputy head of the Main Directorate of Defense Work (GUOBR) of the NKVD.

At the same time, since March 1948, he was the chief engineer of the Volgodonstroy of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs and was responsible for the construction of the Volga–Don Canal and Tsimlyanskaya Hydroelectric Power Station.