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Endzhel Sergeyevich Zhukov (born May 11, 2010, Moscow) is a Russian singer, stage and film actor, voice actor and television presenter. He is the son of Sergey Zhukov, leader of Ruki Vverh!, and singer Regina Burd, known for her work with the group Slivki. Unlike many children of famous musicians who appear mainly in family projects, Endzhel gained independent experience from an early age in musical theatre, film, voice acting and television presenting while also releasing his own pop singles.
His music catalogue includes Devochka-depressiya, Simpl Dimpl, Sneg, Na tebya zapal, Nam 17, Ne pishi mne, Ne govori mne proshchay, Sfotay menya tak, Ty u menya odna and Karta strany. His collaborations with Sergey Zhukov, Bum Bum and Muzhichki, also occupy a special place in his discography. His earliest releases were promoted in part under the name ANGEL, while his later digital catalogue is released primarily under his full name, Endzhel Zhukov.
A Musical Family and an Early Introduction to the Stage
Endzhel was born into a family where music was a professional part of everyday life. By that time Sergey Zhukov had already been the leader of Ruki Vverh! for many years, while Regina Burd had performed with Slivki before focusing on family life. Endzhel’s older sister, Nika Zhukova, also chose a creative profession and later became an actress and singer.
Endzhel’s own stage career, however, did not begin with solo releases. As a child he studied singing, learned piano and guitar, and later became seriously involved in theatre. By 2022, Zhukov had already been performing for around two years with the Children’s Musical Theatre of the Young Actor and said that he was considering studying acting in the future. Endzhel is also listed among the performers in the theatre’s current company.
Theatre became an important part of his professional development long before his more visible film roles. His stage work included productions connected with Oliver Twist, Tom Sawyer and The Ransom of Red Chief; in a television programme dedicated to the children’s musical theatre, he was introduced as the performer playing Johnny in The Ransom of Red Chief.
Muzhichki — the First Performance with Sergey Zhukov
Endzhel’s first notable musical appearance came well before his official solo debut. In the autumn of 2015, when he was five years old, he joined his father onstage at Crocus City Hall during the Ruki Vverh! concert programme 18+1. Father and son performed the song Muzhichki. The official history of Ruki Vverh! identifies this concert as the first performance of the song by Sergey and Endzhel.
Sergey Zhukov later recalled that they also recorded Muzhichki in the studio. The song was structured as a dialogue between a father and his young son and initially existed mainly as a family concert number. Ten years later, it received a full digital release: on May 30, 2025, Sergey and Endzhel Zhukov released it as part of the project Semeyny albom. Sergey Zhukov is credited as the song’s writer.
The First Solo Single — Devochka-depressiya
Endzhel’s independent music career began in 2021. On May 27, he released his first original song, Devochka-depressiya. At the time of release, the performer had only just turned eleven. A music video was made for the song, and his early music materials were distributed under the name ANGEL.
His next single was Simpl Dimpl. The title referred to the anti-stress toy that was popular at the time, although the song itself revolved around the theme of a first teenage crush. By the time he worked on the animated film Plyushevyy Bum!, the Riki company was already presenting Endzhel as a young performer who had released two solo singles — Devochka-depressiya and Simpl Dimpl.
Endzhel’s early repertoire was created with direct involvement from his father. In a joint interview in 2022, Sergey Zhukov explicitly said that at that stage he wrote or selected songs for his son himself. It would therefore be inaccurate to describe the early Endzhel as a fully independent songwriter: he was primarily developing as a vocalist and performer while gradually gaining his own artistic experience.
Bum Bum and Plyushevyy Bum!
Also in 2021 came Endzhel’s first notable studio collaboration with Sergey Zhukov — the song Bum Bum, recorded for the feature-length animated film Plyushevyy Bum!. Father and son not only performed the song but also appeared as the central figures in a music video created to support the film.
Bum Bum is important to Endzhel’s early discography because it connected several strands that would later develop further in his career: pop music, family cinema and animation. Work with animated productions would eventually become a separate professional direction for him. Digital services continue to list Bum Bum among his more notable recordings.
Sneg, Na tebya zapal and Moving onto Bigger Stages
In 2022, Endzhel’s repertoire expanded with the songs Sneg and Na tebya zapal. While his first singles were closely connected with children’s and early-teen pop culture, Na tebya zapal was already moving toward a more conventional romantic pop song aimed at teenage listeners.
At the same time, the scale of his performances grew. In July 2022, Endzhel appeared at a Ruki Vverh! concert at Gazprom Arena in Saint Petersburg, where he performed his own song Na tebya zapal in front of a stadium audience. For a twelve-year-old performer, appearing at concerts of this size offered stage experience on a completely different level from children’s theatre or smaller solo performances.
Nam 17: a Full Father-and-Son Duet
In the summer of 2022, the song Nam 17 was released, officially credited as a collaboration between Ruki Vverh! and Endzhel Zhukov. In the video, Sergey and Endzhel played with the idea of exchanging ages: adult characters became teenagers, while the younger characters imagined themselves as adults. Regina Burd and Nika Zhukova also appeared in the video.
For Endzhel’s musical biography, Nam 17 was more significant than the earlier family numbers. While Muzhichki had originally been perceived as a small child performing alongside his famous father, here Endzhel was formally credited as a separate performer on an official Ruki Vverh! release.
In interviews from this period, Endzhel said that he did not intend to choose exclusively between music and acting. Both interested him, and among the artists with whom he would like to record a collaboration he named JONY.
Film: Playing His Own Father
Endzhel’s acting career developed visibly almost simultaneously with his music. In the family film Artek. Bolshoe puteshestvie, released in 2022, he played Sergey Zhukov as a child. Sergey Zhukov himself also appeared in the film, while Endzhel’s sister Nika played a member of a music group.
The role was symbolic: Endzhel had the opportunity to portray his own father’s childhood on screen before a separate film about Ruki Vverh! had even been made. This storyline would later receive a much larger continuation.
Uncle Fyodor in Prostokvashino
One of Endzhel’s most notable voice-acting roles has been in the animated series Prostokvashino from Soyuzmultfilm. Beginning with the fifth season, he became the new voice of Uncle Fyodor. The change of voice actor was officially confirmed by both Soyuzmultfilm and TASS.
Endzhel said that when working on the character, he tries to study the entire script in advance, understand the character’s emotional state and not merely read the text but act through the scene. He also noted similarities between himself and Uncle Fyodor in combining a cheerful personality with the ability to take some situations seriously.
His work on Prostokvashino therefore became not a one-off celebrity-child appearance, but an extended professional voice-acting role within a major animated franchise.
Podushki-shou and His First Experience as a Presenter
At the same time, Endzhel began developing his skills in conversational formats. In 2022, he became one of the hosts of the children’s project Podushki-shou on Yandex Music. In the second season, together with the Alice voice assistant and Sasha Kravchenko, he spoke with guests and experts about history, science, art and other subjects. The season consisted of forty episodes.
Presenting added a new dimension to his musical and theatrical experience: instead of vocals or a pre-written role, the key skills were conversational speech, reacting to guests and maintaining the audience’s attention.
Music in 2023
In 2023, Endzhel continued releasing solo recordings. One of the central songs of the period was Ne pishi mne, which remains part of his official digital catalogue. Around the same period came the collaboration Svetlyachok with Marusya Korablina, followed by the single Ne govori mne proshchay.
The video for Ne govori mne proshchay featured Anna Peresild. Its visual story was no longer structured as a children’s music number, but as a teenage romantic mini-drama, reflecting the gradual maturation of Endzhel’s repertoire.
As he grew older, his overall presentation changed as well. His earliest songs actively used the language of children’s and teenage internet trends, while later releases increasingly moved toward conventional youth-oriented pop and dance-pop centred on attraction, communication and first relationships.
Poltora sportsmena
In August 2023, Endzhel became co-host alongside Dmitry Shepelev of the sports and educational online show Poltora sportsmena, created for Odnoklassniki. The programme helped children and parents discover different sports and choose an activity that suited them. Eight episodes were planned.
For Zhukov, this became the first major series in which he appeared specifically as a television-style co-host rather than as a guest young performer.
The Film Ruki Vverh!
In 2024, Endzhel once again played his father, this time in the feature-length musical film Ruki Vverh!, directed by Askar Uzabayev. The film told the story of Sergey Zhukov’s childhood, his move to Samara, his meeting with Alexey Potekhin and the formation of one of Russia’s most popular groups of the late 1990s.
Sergey Zhukov was portrayed at different ages by three performers: Endzhel Zhukov as a child, Vlad Prokhorov as a young man, and Sergey Zhukov himself as an adult. The childhood scenes were filmed partly in Dimitrovgrad, Sergey’s hometown.
For Endzhel, this role was substantially more demanding than an ordinary family cameo. He was required not simply to appear alongside his father, but to portray the early life of a real person whose story he knew intimately from family experience. As a result, the theme of creative continuity within the Zhukov family became embedded directly into the film’s narrative.
Music for Animation
His connection with animated projects continued after Plyushevyy Bum! and Prostokvashino. At the end of 2024, Soyuzmultfilm released the mini-album Chto takoe Novyy god?. Endzhel, together with Maria Savinykh and Anton Savenkov, performed the song Bolshoy sekret udachi kota.
Recordings of this kind form a separate part of his catalogue: alongside his own youth-oriented pop music, his discography also includes songs created for family films and animation.
Sfotay menya tak
In the spring of 2025, Endzhel Zhukov and the project Kurortny Roman released the collaborative single Sfotay menya tak. It was released on April 25 through RV Music. The song is credited to Sergey Zhukov, Nikita Vashkevich and Roman Komarov. An official music video and a separate mood video were produced for the track.
Musically, Sfotay menya tak marked a further transition from children’s repertoire toward contemporary youth pop. The lyrics revolve around photography as a way of preserving memories of a relationship, while digital vocabulary — phones, galleries and stories — is used not as a children’s internet trend, but as a natural part of a story about teenage attraction.
The Return of Muzhichki
In May 2025, an interesting circle was completed in Endzhel’s early musical history: Muzhichki, the song he had first performed with his father at the age of five, was officially released by Sergey and Endzhel Zhukov on the compilation Semeyny albom.
The same song therefore became connected with two different stages of his life — his first appearance on a major concert stage and a later, more established teenage phase of his music career.
The Leading Role in Ty u menya odna
One of Endzhel’s most serious acting projects became the lead role in the musical production Ty u menya odna, which premiered on October 16, 2025 on the main stage of the Moscow Gubernsky Theatre. Nina Chusova directed the production, while Sergey Zhukov created the original concept and served as composer and producer. He wrote fifteen new songs for the production.
Endzhel played Vanya, the fifteen-year-old central character of a story linking the present day with events of the Second World War. The project was particularly important for his acting biography: Zhukov received a central dramatic role in a two-hour musical production that required him to combine acting and vocal performance.
By that point, theatre was no longer a new environment for Endzhel. Sergey Zhukov emphasized that his son had spent several years training professionally at the Children’s Musical Theatre of the Young Actor and had become familiar with the material for the future production long before its premiere.
After the stage premiere, Endzhel released the solo single Ty u menya odna in December 2025.
Karta strany: Music and Presenting
The next notable stage was the youth travel project Karta strany. Endzhel Zhukov and singer and blogger Taya Skomorokhova became its presenters. The programme is built around journeys through Russian cities: the hosts follow different routes — one historical and one modern — and then combine their impressions. The project covers twelve cities across twelve episodes.
On January 23, 2026, Endzhel and Taya released the title song Karta strany. Once again, television work became connected with music, as the presenters of the programme also performed its theme song.
Karta strany demonstrated another direction in Endzhel’s development — work not only in children’s entertainment programmes but also in a more independent teenage format focused on travel and culture.
Ruki Vverh! 2
In 2026, Endzhel once again joined a film project connected with his family history and Ruki Vverh!. He took part in filming the sequel, Ruki Vverh! 2. Sergey Zhukov, Regina Burd, Nika, Miron and Evan Zhukov also appear in the film, while Vlad Prokhorov and Ilya Rus returned to their roles as Sergey Zhukov and Alexey Potekhin.
His participation in the second film continues a consistent strand of Endzhel’s acting career in which family history exists alongside independent theatre work and other screen projects.
Musical Style
The foundation of Endzhel Zhukov’s solo music remains contemporary Russian-language pop. Early recordings such as Devochka-depressiya and Simpl Dimpl were aimed primarily at children and younger teenagers, using light dance arrangements, internet vocabulary and themes of first attraction.
As the performer matured, his songs moved closer to conventional youth-oriented pop and dance-pop. Na tebya zapal, Ne pishi mne, Ne govori mne proshchay and Sfotay menya tak are already built around romantic relationships and emotional communication between teenagers.
At the same time, a significant proportion of his studio material is still created in collaboration with professional songwriters. Sergey Zhukov played a particularly large role in the early phase and explicitly said that he wrote or selected songs for his son. On the later track Sfotay menya tak, Zhukov Sr. is also credited among the writers alongside Nikita Vashkevich and Roman Komarov.
For this reason, Endzhel’s musical identity is currently defined less by an independent compositional school than by his voice, performance style, stage experience and gradual transition from children’s pop toward more mature youth-oriented music.
Selected Discography of Endzhel Zhukov
- Devochka-depressiya — 2021;
- Simpl Dimpl — 2021;
- Bum Bum — with Sergey Zhukov, soundtrack to Plyushevyy Bum!, 2021;
- Sneg — 2022;
- Na tebya zapal — 2022;
- Nam 17 — with Ruki Vverh!, 2022;
- Ne pishi mne — 2023;
- Svetlyachok — with Marusya Korablina, 2023;
- Ne govori mne proshchay — 2023;
- Bolshoy sekret udachi kota — with Maria Savinykh and Anton Savenkov, 2024;
- Sfotay menya tak — with Kurortny Roman, 2025;
- Muzhichki — with Sergey Zhukov, 2025;
- Ty u menya odna — 2025;
- Karta strany — with Taya Skomorokhova, 2026.
Endzhel does not yet have a full-length solo album in his main digital discography: his music career is developing primarily through individual singles, collaborations and songs connected with film, animation and stage projects.
Major Work in Theatre, Film and Voice Acting
- Children’s Musical Theatre of the Young Actor — company performer;
- Artek. Bolshoe puteshestvie — Sergey Zhukov as a child, 2022;
- Prostokvashino — voice of Uncle Fyodor from season five;
- Ruki Vverh! — Sergey Zhukov as a child, 2024;
- Ty u menya odna — Vanya, lead role in the musical production, from 2025;
- Ruki Vverh! 2 — cast member, 2026.
Endzhel Zhukov as an Artist of a New Generation
Endzhel Zhukov’s creative biography is still at an early stage, so judging him by the scale of Sergey Zhukov’s achievements would be inappropriate. His professional path is developing according to a different model. Instead of one dominant music project, he is simultaneously building experience in pop music, musical theatre, film, voice acting and presenting.
At the same time, the Zhukov surname inevitably connects him with the history of Ruki Vverh!: his first major concert experience was Muzhichki with his father, one of his central collaborations became Nam 17, and on screen Endzhel has already portrayed Sergey Zhukov as a child several times. In parallel, however, he has taken on roles unrelated directly to the family brand — work at the Children’s Musical Theatre of the Young Actor, Uncle Fyodor in Prostokvashino, television projects and his own singles.
The transition from Devochka-depressiya and Simpl Dimpl to Sfotay menya tak, the major role in the stage production Ty u menya odna and the Karta strany project is particularly revealing. These works belong to different areas of the profession and demonstrate his gradual move away from the image of a child simply appearing alongside a famous father.
Endzhel Zhukov is therefore better understood as a young multidisciplinary performer whose own professional identity is still taking shape. His musical family gave him early access to the stage and recording studio, but the foundations of his future career are increasingly being built on accumulated theatre experience, work in front of the camera, voice acting and the steady development of his own music catalogue.
