Sergey Panteleevich Mavrodi

Sergey Panteleevich Mavrodi was born on August 11, 1955 in Moscow. By nationality on the mother's side - Russian, on the father's side - half Ukrainian, half Greek. Father - Panteley Andreevich Mavrodi - installer (died of lung cancer in 1980), mother - Valentina Fedorovna Mavrodi (nee. - Monakhova) - economist (died of liver cancer in 1986). The younger brother is Vyacheslav (born 1962).

As a child, Sergei was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect.

According to Mavrodi himself, as a child he had a phenomenal memory.

He graduated from ten grades of secondary school No. 35, according to other sources - No. 45 of the city of Moscow. He graduated from the Children's Art School No. 1 named after V. A. Serov on Prechistenka. According to Mavrodi, during his studies he showed abilities in mathematics and physics, won school Olympiads.

After graduating from school in 1972, he entered the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, but did not pass the entrance exams and entered the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics. He was fond of playing chess and poker. At the Institute, Sergey for the first time began to produce and sell copies of audio and video materials. After graduating from MIEM, Mavrodi worked for two years in a closed research institute.

In 1983, for the first time, he was detained for a period of 10 days by the staff of the OBKHSS "for private entrepreneurial activity" (the sale of illegal video recording products). During the arrest, when the decision was made to institute criminal proceedings against him, a resolution of the CPSU Central Committee "On excesses" was issued, and Mavrodi was released.