[2] Sergey Kravchuk was born on 27 August 1960 Tsentralny, Topkinsky district, Kemerovo Oblast.

[3] In January 1981, immediately after demobilization, he began work at the Makarovskaya mine, located in the Sakhalin Oblast until August 1987.

[3] In 1987, he entered the Khabarovsk Higher Party School, which was transformed in 1991 into the Far Eastern Social and Political Institute, where he graduated by the end of the year.

[3][5] After his graduation, he has worked in the Khabarovsk administration, taking the position of head of the housing maintenance department.

[3][5] In 2001, he graduated from the Far Eastern Academy of Civil Service, where he studied municipal and public administration.