Perm State University
Zanadvorov was born in 1914 and grew up in his native town of Perm. He attended a technical high school and honed his youthful interest in geology by taking part in several Soviet geological expeditions after his high school graduation in the early 1930s. These expeditions which took him all over the Soviet Union. He enrolled at Perm State University to study geology in 1935 and finished his degree with distinction in 1940.