Evgeni Plushenko was born on November 3, 1982 in Solnechnyy, Solnechnyy rayon, Khabarovskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia] as Evgeniy Viktorovich Plyushchenko. He has been married to Yana Rudkovskaya since September 12, 2009. They have one child. He was previously married to Mariya Ermak.