[2] Sadovnichiy was born in the village of Krasnopavlovka in Kharkov Oblast (now in Ukraine) to worker Anton Grigoryevich and collective farmer Anna Matveyevna.

Sadovnichiy defended his doctoral thesis in 1974 (topic: "On some issues in the theory of ordinary differential equations depending on the spectral parameter").

[19][20] In their co-authored article “On the Possibilities to Forecast the Current Crisis and its Second Wave” (with Askar Akaev and Andrey Korotayev) in the Russian academic journal “Ekonomicheskaya politika” (December 2010.

Pages 39–46 Клиодинамика - математические методы в истории) the three authors published «a forecast of the second wave of the crisis, which suggested that it may start in July — August, 2011».

[23] In the 1970s–1980s, Sadovnichiy held positions of responsibility in the admissions committee for applicants for entrance exams at Moscow State University.

Alexander Shen, George Szpiro, and other mathematicians accused Sadovnichiy of being a leading proponent of the discriminatory policy that prevented the mass admission of applicants of Jewish origin to the MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics.

[31] [32] Defunct During his studies, Sadovnichiy was engaged in social work, heading the university's student committee and the faculty's Komsomol organization.

[25] Sadovnichiy said the following about the relation between his political activity and rectorship of the MSU in the early 90s: In his (Yeltsin’s) circle, I was classified as a “red director” - after all, I was a member of the university party committee.

The rector was to be a reformer.Since December 2002, Sadovnichiy has been a member of the political council of the Moscow regional branch of the United Russia party.

In response for his support of the invasion, he was deprived of honorary doctorates from Ukrainian universities in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro.