Career
Mandrykin trained at the youth academy at Football Club Alania Vladikavkaz and in 1997 turned professional aged seventeen. In 1998, he made his Russian Premier League debut and made 46 first-team appearances for Football Club Alania Vladikavkaz over the next three years before joining PFC CSKA Moscow in 2002. He played for PFC Spartak Nalchik in the Russian Cup.
On 10 November 2010, he crashed his Porsche Cayenne SUV into a tree after trying to get away from a traffic police car in a high-speed chase.
He suffered spinal fracture and injuries to his spinal cord. Two passengers in his car (two women, aged 19 and 20) received less serious injuries, breaking bones.
Two of his Football Club Dynamo Bryansk teammates who were also in the car, Maksim Fyodorov and Marat Magkeyev, received very minor injuries. On December 21, 2010, he was charged with drunk driving leading to injuries in connection with the incident and can face up to 3 years of imprisonment.
He made his first appearance in the senior team for the Russian national football team in February 2003 when Russia played Cyprus.