His parents, Vladimir and Lyudmila Korotkevich, are programmers in the mathematics department at Francysk Skaryna Homiel State University.

[9] His mother consulted departmental colleague Mikhail Dolinsky, who gave Korotkevich a small book to read.

Then suddenly Lyudmila comes by and brings me a programming notebook: when summer and football were over, her son sat at the computer.

As a second-grader at a national competition, he took second place, which gained him an automatic entry into a technical university without taking any entrance exams.

"[9] Korotkevich first gained global attention when he qualified for the 2006 International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) at the age of 11, a world record by a large margin.

[10] In a 2017 interview, Korotkevich said he had received job offers from Google and Yandex, but that he had turned them down and would instead continue with his degree in computer science at ITMO.

The handle coloring of this category is an inverted "Legendary Grandmaster" Nutella coloring—the first letter red and the rest of the name black.