Natalja Varlej blev født i [[Constanţa]] i Rumænien som datter af en skibskaptajn, der tillige var borgmester i [[Murmansk]], hvor familien boede.<ref name="kp">{{cite news|url=http://www.kp.ru/daily/23391/217545/|title=Natalya Varley's Father was a Mayor of Murmansk|date=2004-10-28|publisher=[[Komsomolskaja Pravda]]|accessdate=2014-10-07}}</ref><ref name="ng">{{cite news|url=http://www.ng.by/ru/issues?art_id=32151|title=Natalya Varley: 'The Earth Spins Faster' // Наталья Варлей: "Вертится быстрей Земля!"|author=Pork, Marina|date=2009|publisher=Narodnaja Gazeta|accessdate=2012-08-31|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120801084349/http://ng.by/ru/issues?art_id=32151|archivedate=2012-08-01}}</ref><ref name="private_story">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzNWP4fthE0 Varley Documentary.] Moskva Doverye Channel. The Private Story Series.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://tv.kp.ru/daily/23856.4/221003/ |title=Natalya Varley in Zapolyarye |date=2007-02-16 |publisher=tv.kp.ru |accessdate=2015-06-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012203110/http://tv.kp.ru/daily/23856.4/221003/ |archivedate=2014-10-12 }}</ref> Nataljas mor var en fjern efterkommer af [[Aleksej Tolstoj]].<ref name="rusactors">{{cite web | author = | date = | url  = http://rusactors.ru/v/varley/index.shtml|title = Varley, Natalya Vladimirovna| publisher  = Rusactors| accessdate = 16. maj 2015}}</ref>
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