Early Life
Malenkov was born at Orenburg, Russian Empire. His paternal ancestors were of Macedonian extraction (area of Ohrid), some of whom served as officers in the Russian Imperial Army. His father was a wealthy farmer in Orenburg province. Young Malenkov occasionally helped his father to do business selling the harvest. His mother was the daughter of a blacksmith and the granddaughter of an Orthodox priest. Malenkov graduated from Orenburg gymnasium just a few months prior to the Russian revolution of 1917 and joined the Red Army as volunteer in 1918, fighting alongside communists against capitalists. He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1920 and worked as a political commissar on a propaganda train in Turkestan, Central Asia, during the Russian civil war in Central Asia.
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