Editing Vladislav Roslyakov (section)

== Childhood ==
Vladislav Igorevich Roslyakov was born on May 2, 2000 to parents [[Igor Roslyakov]] and Galina Roslyakova in Kerch, Russia. The couple would later divorce ten years after the birth of their son, however, after Igor sustained an acute cranial injury and began acting in an aggressive manner towards family members, including Vladislav and Galina. The unspecified head injury resulted in Igor becoming disabled. 
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Little is known about Roslyakov's parents. A significant detail that has emerged since the attack is the fact that Galina was/is a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses, a cult that had already been banned in Russia. Galina enforced restrictive behaviors (possibly picked up from the group) upon her son. As a result, Vladislav was barred from partaking in certain activities such as visiting the cinema and participating in lighthearted school events. Galina would also frequently search her son's pockets and limit his social interactions (which could very well have contributed to Roslyakov's lack of many friends). Contrary to popular belief, Vladislav did in fact have access to internet before the age of sixteen. When he was around fourteen, perhaps younger based on his voice, he uploaded a video onto the website YouTube: a play through of video game Minecraft. In contrast to his mother's strict religious views, Vladislav Roslyakov developed his own atheistic views as he emerged into adulthood. On October 16, 2018, only a day before the massacre, Vladislav confided to a friend that he did not believe in an afterlife.

Prior to his enrollment at Kerch Polytechnic Institute, Vladislav attended a local school. During this time, he expressed no interest in his studies and consequently received poor grades. It is implied that Roslyakov had a fascination with weapons from a young age and had few friends. As far as we know, this element of independence was something that would remain consistent throughout his life.

In 2015, Vladislav Roslyakov began attending Kerch Polytechnic Institute, with probable hopes of becoming an electrician (evident in both his school records and his liking to video games). It was around this time that Vladislav began to engage in suspicious behaviors, including carrying a knife bayonet to class and pursuing an interest in weapons and explosives. If Roslyakov had taken an interest in weapons in his younger years, those interests had almost certainly intensified. Luckily, there are no reports of the knife having ever been utilized. Despite this, Vladislav Roslyakov was involved in an incident where he [Roslyakov] ejected the contents from a can of pepper spray into one of his classrooms for unexplained reasons.