Evgeni Malkin, an Ice Hockey player by profession, came to life on 31st July 1986 and is currently 29 years of age. He is a Russian by birth and was born in Magnitogorsk, Russian SFSR. He was born to his father Vladimir who used to work with a reputed steel firm in Russia and also used to play Ice Hockey at the professional level and to his mother Natalia Malkin. Both his parents were short in height and thus everybody around him anticipated that Malkin would be short in height as well and would not be a very good athlete. However, Malkin showed the interest in sports while he was just 3 years old when he learned skating.
At a very young age, when most of the children are learning to interact with the outside world, Malkin had started playing Ice Hockey and earned fame in the sport in his teenage itself. He went on to grow to 6 feet and 3 inches in height and proved himself to be a very good athlete. Malkin owns a restaurant in Russia as well and thus can be called a businessman apart from a popular sportsman. He has also been approached to act in movies in the past. He is currently engaged to his girlfriend Anna Kasterova and whether they became married or not and converted their boyfriend-girlfriend relation into a husband-wife relation or not is still not confirmed.
According to his biography, Malkin had an interest in Hockey since he was very young in age and he started playing the game when he was still studying in his high school. He joined his school and college hockey teams and performed well there to earn a good reputation in the sport. He later on played in Russia with a team named Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Russian Hockey super league and earned much fame there because of his performances. He was called to the US to play in NHL by the team Pittsburgh Penguins but because of some transfer issues from Russia to the US, he could not join the team immediately.
He signed a contract with the team Pittsburgh Penguins in the year 2006 and made his NHL debut with the team. He has been playing with the team ever since and has given many remarkable performances for the team. His stint with the team has remained mostly injury free and he has led his team to win many championships and trophies because of his performances and has been much appreciated by his coaches and teammates in the past. He has also been a recipient of popular awards like Art Ross Trophy, Conn Smythe Trophy, NHL First All-Star Team multiple times, World Championship Best Forward, World Championship Most Valuable Player, and many others. He also plays for the national team of Russia at international level and has earned much fame playing there.
Malkin is known to have earned much wealth because of his salary and contracts with his present and past teams. His estimated net worth is close to around $25 million and this wealth is projected to increase in the future as well. He is also known to be very active on social media platforms like twitter where he has got over 1.4 million followers.
| Birth Date: | 31 Jul, 1986 |
| Age: | 33 yrs |
| Occupations: | Ice hockey player |
| Citizenship: | Soviet Union Russia United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Magnitogorsk |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | Russian ice hockey forward |
| Twitter Id: | Malkin71_ |
| Net Worth 2021: | 50 million |
