After another Russian team went missing on P2X-338, which included a good friend of his, his team worked with SG-1 in 2001 to explore the ziggurat which the previous team discovered. During the mission, his fellow officer Major Sergei Vallarin became host to Marduk. He confronted Zukhov about the Eye of Tiamat. Zukhov was later killed, after handing Marduk/Vallarin a live grenade that detonated. (SG1: "The Tomb") He was a friend of both Dr. Svetlana Markov and Colonel Chekov. (SG1: "The Tomb", "48 Hours")