Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whānau a Vladimir Kramnik ki te taone o Tuapse, i te takutai o te Moana Pango. Ko te ingoa whanau o tona papa ko Boris Sokolov, engari i tangohia e ia te ingoa o tana papa tuarua i te wa i marenatia ai tona whaea (te kuia o Vladimir). Ko tana whaea ko Irina Fedorovna he Iukereiniana, he kaiako puoro; Ko tana papa he kaitoi me te kaitoi. I a ia e tamariki ana, i ako a Vladimir Kramnik i te kura kaitakaro i whakatuhia e Mikhail Botvinnik. Ko tana hua nui tuatahi i roto i te whakataetae nui ko tana wikitoria i te mētara koura hei tuatahi mo te kapa Russian i te
Ko te 1992 Chess Olympiad i Manila. Ko tana kowhiringa mo te tiima i raru i Russia i taua wa, na te mea he Kaiwhakaako FIDE noa ia. Heoi, i tautokohia tana whiringa e Garry Kasparov. E waru nga wikitoria, kotahi te toenga, kaore he ngaronga, he mahinga o te 2958, i riro i a ia te mētara koura mo te mahinga arotake pai rawa atu.