Born on 26 September 1965. Cherepovets in the Vologda region. Parents: Father Alexander Mordashov, graduated from the Gorky Polytechnic Institute with a degree in electrical engineer "and in the early 1960's moved to Cherepovets. There, at the Cherepovets Steel Mill, he met with his mother Mordashov, who worked in the department equipment.
In 1988. Alexei Mordashov graduated with honors from the Leningrad Engineering-Economics Institute. Togliatti.In Leningrad, he met with Anatoly Chubais, who taught at this institute. After the first course Alexei Mordashov came to Chubais as an assistant to the chair. About Mordashov Chubais said that he gave him a lot of rare at that time knowledge of the economic mechanism, first introduced to the works of Yegor Gaidar.
