Zhukovka (Russian: Жуковка) is a town and the administrative center of Zhukovsky District in Bryansk Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Desna River (Dnieper's basin) 56 kilometers (35 mi) northwest of Bryansk, the administrative center of the oblast.

[citation needed] In the years that followed, a settlement grew around the Zhukovka station.

During World War II, it was occupied by the Germans on August 24, 1941.

[2] As a municipal division, Zhukovsky Urban Administrative Okrug is incorporated within Zhukovsky Municipal District as Zhukovskoye Urban Settlement.

[4] The 43-kilometer (27 mi) railway branch line leads to Kletnya.