 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Malyarenko akaberekwa musi wa2 Kukadzi 1951 muBirobidzhan, mwanakomana wemushandi paDalselmash plant, Vasily Petrovich Malyarenko, uye wemutengesi, Polina Iosifovna. Pashure pokupinda chikoro chesekondari, muna 1962 akapinda Ussuriysk Suvorov muchiuto chikoro, uye kubva 1969 kusvika 1974 akadzidza paMilitary Academy of Chemical Defense muSaratov. Muna 1986 akabatanidzwa mukuedza kubvisa tsaona paChernobyl nuclear power plant. Akasiya basa muuto aine chinzvimbo chaLieutenant Colonel. 