I whanau a Kondrashin i Moscow i roto i te whanau o nga kaiwaiata puoro. I te maha o nga haora i nga whakamatautau, i whakatau ia i te tau 14 ki te noho hei kaiarahi. I ako ia i te Moscow Conservatory mai i te 1931 ki te 1936 i raro i te kaiarahi a Boris Khaykin. I timata a Kondrashin ki te whakahaere i te Whare Taonga o te Young People i Moscow i te 1931, ka haere tonu ki te Stanislavsky me Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre e toru tau i muri mai. I whakahaere ia i te Maliy Opera Theatre i Leningrad mai i te 1938 ki te 1942 me te Bolshoi Theatre i Moscow mai i te 1943. Ko tana mahinga o te Symphony No.1 o Shostakovich i aro atu ki te hoa o te hoa. I te 1947, i whakawhiwhia ia ki te Tohu Stalin. Patai: He aha te tau i mahi ai a Kondrashin i Moscow?
Ko te tau 1943