Timofey Mozgov

Timofey Mozgov was born on July 16, 1986 in St. Petersburg. His father, a former professional handball player, wanted his son to play sports. In the elementary grades of the boy, he began to train in the basketball section of the Admiralty specialized children's and Youth school of the Olympic Reserve. The first coach was Gennady Panyutin.

At the age of ten, the Mozgov family moved to a permanent place of residence in the village of Enem in the Republic of Adygea. Timofey continued basketball lessons in the village where he lived, then began to go to training in the village of Afipsky. At that time, his coach was Evgeny Lysenko, who advised a promising student to continue his studies in Moscow or St. Petersburg so that his progress would go faster.

At the age of sixteen, Timofey returned to St. Petersburg and began training at a basketball boarding school. The athlete played for the LenVO team. After the club started sponsoring BC Spartak, it was going to join Spartak. However, Timofey rendered