Early Life
Tsoi was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. He was the only child of Valentina Vasilyevna Tsoi (8 January 1937 in Leningrad, Soviet Union - 28 November 2009 in Saint Petersburg, Russia), a Russian schoolteacher, and Robert Maximovich Tsoi (born 5 May 1938 in Kyzylorda, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union; today's Kazakhstan), a Soviet Korean engineer.
Tsoi attended the Serov Artistic Academy in Leningrad from 1974 to 1977. In 1977, when Tsoi was 18 years old, the academy expelled him. The academy said that he was expelled for poor grades. RT said "it didn't help that he was heavily involved in the rock scene."
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