Yuri Andropov
There has been much contention over his family background. According to the official biography, Andropov was born in stanitsa Nagutskaya (modern-day Stavropol Krai of Russia) on 15 June 1914. His father Vladimir Konstantinovich Andropov was a railway worker of Don Cossack descent who died from typhus in 1919. His mother Yevgenia Karlovna Fleckenstein (none of the official sources mentioned her name) was a school teacher who died in 1931. She was born in the Ryazan Governorate into a family of town dwellers and was abandoned on the doorstep of a Finnish citizen, a Jewish watchmaker Karl Franzevich Fleckenstein who lived in Moscow; he and his wife Eudokia Mikhailovna Fleckenstein adopted and raised her. Later researches has shown that many details about Andropov's biography were largely falsified during his lifetime which has contributed to the confusion connected to his family history.
Andrey Baykov
Andrey Baykov was born in 1984 in Cherepovets and graduated from Moscow State University of International Relations in 2007, receiving Master's degree in international relations. In 2009 he was awarded the Candidate of Sciences degree (Russian PhD equivalent degree) for researching comparative regional integration in East Asia and Europe. Having developed this study, in 2012 he published his major work, "Comparative Integration". He has been a Docent (Associate Professor) at MGIMO since 2013, also heading its Master's Programmes Office.Andrey Baykov worked as a visiting scholar at the George Washington University and the Free University of Berlin.