Born on 28 July 1998, Zhukov is a student and tutor at the Higher School of Economics.

[2] Created his YouTube blog on June 6, 2017 as part of the contest[3] of Alexei Navalny.

[8] On 6 December, he was sentenced to three years' probation – lighter than expected[9] – following widespread public support for him.

[12] He interviews such Russian figures as Alexey Navalny, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Natalya Poklonskaya, Leonid Parfyonov, Mikhail Svetov, Maxim Katz and others.

At the end of 2024 it became known that Egor Zhukov emigrated to the USA and is studying at Syracuse University.