Editing Evgeni Plushenko (section)

==Early life and education==
Plushenko was born on 3 November 1982 in {{interlanguage link|Dzhamku|ru|Джамку}}, [[Solnechny District]], Khabarovsk Krai, Soviet Union.<ref name=FSRbio /> His mother was originally from [[Volgograd]], Russian SFSR, and his father, a [[carpenter]],<ref name=bio0001 /> was born in [[Donetsk, Russia]].<ref name=AIF061025 /> He has an older sister.<ref name=bio0001 /> Plushenko lived in Volgograd before moving to [[Saint Petersburg]] in 1994.<ref name=jbm98 /><ref name=LASP /> His mother died on 10 July 2015.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tragedy Strikes |url=https://www.facebook.com/figureskatingmag/posts/10154025913972538 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/278550292537/10154025913972538 |archive-date=26 February 2022 |url-access=limited |website=Facebook |access-date=21 July 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

A 1998 graduate of school No. 91 in [[Petrogradsky District]], he began studying at the {{interlanguage link|Lesgaft University|ru|Национальный государственный университет физической культуры, спорта и здоровья имени П. Ф. Лесгафта}} in 2000, graduating in 2005, and at the Faculty of tourism and hospitality of the [[Saint Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics]] in 2004.<ref name=FSRbio /><ref name=LASP />

His surname is most commonly [[Romanization of Russian|romanized]] as ''Plushenko'' but other variations exist. The [[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]] [[shcha]] ("щ") may be transliterated as 'shch' (scholarly šč), but the simplified variant 'sh' is often used for convention. The letter "ю" is pronounced "yu", so a more accurate transliteration would be "Plyushchenko". His given name is romanized as Evgeni or Yevgeny.<ref name=isucr /><ref name=reut121226 />