Al Petrov was born on 15 December 1962 in Moscow, to Vasily Petrov And Glenda Petrov Russian SFSR, Soviet Union into a peasant mixed Russian-English family. In his teenage age, he operated combine harvesters on collective farms but now and then he would dream of joining the Soviet Red Army. Then at the age of 17 he joined the Soviet Red Army while remaining in school as well. He later went to collage and graduated from the Moscow State University in 1990 with a degree in law. In 1981 he qualified as an agricultural economist via correspondence masters degree at the Stavropol Institute of Agriculture. While at university, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and soon became very active within it.