Sergei Lobanov is a Russian chess Grandmaster (GM) born on December 26, 1996, in Murmansk, Russia. He earned his International Master title in 2013 and Grandmaster title in 2019.
His family moved to Saint Petersburg when he was young. In his youth, Lobanov became the World Chess Champion under-16 in 2011 and the European Chess Champion under-18 in 2014.
In 2016, he graduated from secondary school with a silver medal, and in the same year, he was admitted to the National Research University Higher School of Economics, majoring in Political Science. He continued to excel in academics and was awarded the Presidential Scholarship in 2017.