Georgii Zhuikov was born in 1912.

He joined the Red Army in 1932.

Starshiy leytenant Zhuikov served in 3./7 IAP during the Finnish-Soviet Winter War. This unit was equipped with Polikarpov I-153s.

Soviet troops pressed closer to the city of Vyborg on 9 March and the fronts bent but didn’t break. LeR 1 kept a close watch of the enemy ground movements while LeR 2 and LeR 3 kept on the strafing and bombing of the troops in the invasion area and attacked the supply columns.
At 12:20, vänrikki Jouko Myllymäki (Morane MS-330) of LLv 28 claimed an I-16 over Uusikirkko.
At 16:30, two I-153 were claimed shot down over Viipurinlahti. These were claimed by vänrikki Kauko Linnamaa (Fiat G.50bis FA-20) of LLv 26 and Danish luutnantti Mogens Fensboe (Morane MS-320) of LLv 28.
Morane MS-322 of LLv 28 was shot down over Vilalahti at 17:00 and luutnantti Erkki Lupari was wounded.
7 IAP was heavy involved in the combat during the day and was the only VVS units claiming victories during the day when they claimed eight fighters and one bomber.
Starshiy leytenant Vladimir Kurochkin and Franchuck of 1./7 IAP (I-16) claimed two shared enemy fighters.
Kapitan N. M. Kidalinskii of 4./7 IAP claimed an enemy bomber.
Starshiy leytenant Zhuikov of 3./7 IAP (I-153) claimed two enemy fighters.
Nikita Doletskiy of 3./7 IAP (I-153) claimed one enemy fighter.
Viktor Karpukhin of 3./7 IAP (I-153) claimed one enemy fighter.
Georgiy Glotov and mladshiy leytenant Nikolay Ivanov of 3./7 IAP (I-153) claimed a shared fighter.
Mladshiy leytenant Aleksey Nikitin of 3./7 IAP (I-153) claimed one unconfirmed enemy fighter.
No VVS fighters were lost during the day.

Zhuikov ended the Winter War with 2 biplane victories.

He was decorated with the Order of the Red Star on 21 April 1940 (he was to receive a second sometime during the war).

When Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, Zhuikov served as CO 5./191 IAP, equipped with I-16s and Hurricanes.

He was wounded in air combat on 17 September and recovered in a hospital in Sverdlovsk.

On 29 October, he was decorated with the Order of the Red Banner.

He left 191 IAP in April 1942 and was posted to 9 IAP in August. This unit was equipped with Hurricanes.

On 23 November, he was decorated with the Order of Lenin.

On 30 September 1943, mayor Zhuikov left 9 IAP and was posted as CO to 21 GIAP (Airacobras).
He remained with this unit to 8 May 1944.

In July 1944, he was posted to 760 IAP (La-5s) as deputy CO and remained with this unit until 14 November the same year.

On 8 August. mayor Zhuikov claimed two ‘Curtisses’; one south of Värtsilä and one south-east of Värtsilä airfield.
These claims can’t be verified with Finnish records so it’s possible that they were claimed in combat with German units.

Zhuikov ended the war with 2 biplane victories and a total of 11.

On 11 March 1985, he was decorated with the Order of the Patriotic War 1st Class.

Claims:

Kill no.	Date	Time	Number	Type	Result	Plane type	Serial no.	Locality	Unit
	1940
1	09/03/40		1	Enemy fighter (a)	Destroyed	I-153		Gulf of Vyborg	3./7 IAP
2	09/03/40		1	Enemy fighter (a)	Destroyed	I-153		Gulf of Vyborg	3./7 IAP
	1941
	02/09/41		1/6	Do 215	Shared destroyed	I-16			5./191 IAP
3	03/09/41		1	Bf 109	Destroyed	I-16			5./191 IAP
	03/09/41		1/2	Bf 109	Shared destroyed	I-16			5./191 IAP
4	08/09/41		1	Hs 123	Destroyed	I-16			5./191 IAP
5	10/09/41		1	’He 113’	Destroyed	I-16			5./191 IAP
6	10/09/41		1	Ju 87	Destroyed	I-16			5./191 IAP
7	12/09/41		1	Bf 109	Destroyed	I-16			5./191 IAP
8	14/09/41		1	Bf 109	Destroyed	I-16			5./191 IAP
	1943
9	21/10/43		1	Ju 87	Destroyed	Airacobra			21 GIAP
	1944
10	08/08/44		1	Curtiss (b)	Destroyed	La-5		S Värtsilä	760 IAP
11	08/08/44		1	Curtiss (b)	Destroyed	La-5		SE Värtsilä airfield	760 IAP

Biplane victories: 2 destroyed.
TOTAL: 11 and 2 shared destroyed.
(a) 7 IAP claimed 8 fighters and 1 bomber during the day without losses. Finnish fighters claimed 3 Soviet fighters during the day while losing 1 Morane.
(b) Not verified with Finnish records.

Sources:
All aces of Stalin 1936–1953 – Mikhail Bykov, 2014
Red Stars 7 - Talvisota Ilmassa - The Winter War In the Air - Carl-Fredrik Geust, 2011 Apali Oy, Tampere, ISBN 978-952-5877-04-5
Soviet Aces 1936-1953
Soviet Fighter Pilots 1936-1953 - Mikhail Bykov
Suomen Ilmavoimat part II – 1928-40 – Kalevi Keskinen and Kari Stenman, 2006, ISBN 952-99743-0-2