 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Vladamir Bodiansky akatanga dzidzo yake muna 1910 paMoscow Highway Institute. Pashure pokupedza makore mana ari ikoko, Bodianksy akasiya aine dhigirii rouinjiniya muna 1914, uye akatanga kuvaka njanji dzeRussian Protectorate yeBokhara. Nemhaka yokuti akanga anyoresa senhengo yokuzvidira yeRussian Cavalry, akatumirwa kunorwa muHondo yeNyika I muna 1915. Akarwa muRussia kusvikira mwedzi mitatu pashure peOctober Revolution ya1917, achigamuchira dhigirii rake rokutanga mundege munaNovember 1917 kubva kuAviation School yeTiflis. Akasvika muFrance muna January 1918, uye mwedzi mitatu gare gare Bodiansky akabatana neFrench Foreign Legion. Sezvo nhengo Foreign Legion, Bodiansky aiva mabasa akawanda akasiyana-siyana ari avhiyesheni weboka, kusanganisira somunhu muchiuto aviator mutyairi wendege, mumwe hydroplane mutyairi wendege, mumwe seaplane mutyairi wendege, uye imwe civil avhiyesheni mutyairi wendege. Akabviswa muFrench Legion musi waNovember 27, 1919, zvisinei akaramba ari muFrance. Akasarudza kupinda College of Aeronautics Mechanical Construction, achigamuchira dhipuroma muna 1920. Akasarudza kunyorera Naturalization musi waApril 11, 1927 uye akaitwa mugari wenyika musi waJune 26, 1929. Pashure pemakore matatu ari kuCongo achivaka migwagwa mikuru, Bodianski akadzokera kuFrance muna 1923, kwaakatanga kushanda nemahofisi ekugadzira uye makambani endege, kunyanya imwe yaive yehama dzaCaudron. Kubva muna 1925 kusvika muna 1930, Bondiansky akashanda semutungamiriri weprojekiti yezvikwata zvekufamba nendege zveFrançois Villiers muMeudon, kwaakakwanisa kutora zvitupa zvitatu naVillier iye pachake. Pashure porufu rwaVillier, Bodiansky akatanga kugadzira zviratidziro zveimwe ndege yehondo ine zvigaro zviviri nokuda kweuto reFrance. 