title: Kryukov
text: # Kryukov
  
  Kryukov (Russian: Крю́ков) and Kryukova (Russian: Крю́кова; feminine) is a common Russian surname derived from the word "крюк" (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:
  
  * Andrei Krukov (born 1971), Kazakh and Azerbaijani skater
  * Artem Kryukov (born 1982), Russian ice hockey player
  * Fyodor Kryukov (1870–1920), Russian writer and soldier
  * Irina Kryukova (born 1968), Russian women chess grandmaster
  * Mikhail Kryukov (born 1932), Soviet and Russian anthropologist and historian
  * Nikolai Kryukov (gymnast) (born 1978), Russian artistic gymnast
  * Nikolai Kryukov (actor) (1915–1993), Soviet film and theater actor
  * Nikolai Kryukov (composer) (1908–1961), Russian composer
  * Vladimir Kryukov (general) (1897–1959), Soviet Army general
  * Yevgeni Kryukov (born 1963), Soviet and Russian footballer and coach
  