Karapetyan, Samvel Sarkisovich

Born on August 18, 1965 in the city of Kalinino (currently Tashir) , the Armenian SSR , in a family of teachers: father - specialist in mathematics, director of the school; mother is an English teacher. In 1986 he graduated from the Engineering Department of the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute .

In November 2008 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the study of the development of the investment management system in large diversified companies.

Since 1986, he has been managing the enameled products factory in the city of Kalinino (later renamed Tashir ): first he heads the technological department, then the director of the enterprise. Later the plant buys and in 1989 transforms it into its own multi-disciplinary cooperative “Zenith” for the production of rubber and metal products. In 1992 he moved to Russia.

In 1991, at the initiative of Samvel Karapetyan, the city of Kalinino in the Lori region was returned to its former name - Tashir .

In 1997, in the city of Kaluga, it acquired the Kalugaglavsnab company, on the basis of which the Tashir construction and industrial group of companies was created in 1999, which gradually includes production, construction, energy assets, supply and marketing organizations, chains of shopping centers, hotels , residential buildings, cinemas, retail chains and restaurants - in total, more than two hundred companies in various areas of the Russian economy.

In 2000, founded the Tashir Charity Fund.

In 2003, it began expanding into the Moscow real estate market with the purchase of a plot of land, where two years later the first modern multifunctional shopping and entertainment center RIO was opened on Moscow's Sevastopol Avenue (today it is the largest network of shopping and entertainment centers in Russia).

In 2006, Samvel Karapetyan was included for the first time in the Forbes Magazine 's Rating of the Largest Property Owners with an income of $ 29 million from commercial property rental, which already doubled in 2007 to $ 67 million

Since 2010, Samvel Karapetyan has been included in the Forbes magazine's rating of “The Richest Businessmen of Russia” . In 2015, it took 26th place having risen from the moment it first entered the rating by 65 lines and having increased its status by more than 5 times.

Since 2017, it is included in the ranking of the 500 richest people in the world of the Bloomberg agency.

First appeared in the ranking of Russian billionaires compiled by Forbes magazine in 2010 with a fortune of $ 0.75 billion (No. 91 in Russia) ^[3] .

In 2011, Samvel Karapetyan entered the international rating of The World's Billionaires of American Forbes, taking 879 place among the richest people on the planet with a fortune of $ 1.4 billion. By 2015, Samvel Karapetyan is already ranked 418.

Over the past five years, according to estimates, Forbes magazine has increased its fortune by more than five times to $ 3 billion (No. 26 in Russia)

In 2017, the founder of the Tashir group of companies first entered the ranking of the 500 richest people in the world, prepared by Bloomberg, with a fortune of $ 3.86 billion. ^[four]

Married, three children. ^[5] :

• Karapetyan Tatevik Samvelovna (born 1990) is a businesswoman, first vice president of Tashir Group of Companies, managing media assets and the federal cinema chain Cinema Star, members of Tashir Group of Companies.
• Karapetyan Sarkis Samvelovich (born 1992) - businessman, first vice president of the Tashir Group of Companies; Since June 4, 2016 he has been married to Salome Karapetyan (Kintsurashvili). ^{[6] [7]}
• Karapetyan Karen Samvelovich - First Vice President of Tashir Group of Companies; from September 17, 2017 he is married to Lilit Karapetyan (Markosyan). ^[eight]

Brother Karen Karapetyan is an Armenian statesman.

• 2001 - receives the Russian National Business and Entrepreneurship Award “Business Olympus” - “Honored Entrepreneur of the Russian Federation”.
• 2001 - awarded a gold medal in honor of the 1700th anniversary of the adoption of Christianity in Armenia .
• 2001 - Order of the Holy Right Prince Daniel of Moscow, II degree (ROC).
• 2003 - awarded with a nominal watch of the President of Russia.
• 2005 - receives the All-Russian Prize “Russian National Olympus” - the order “For Honor and Valor” and the badge “Golden Olympus”.
• 2010 - took first place in the ranking of the most influential people in the commercial real estate market, compiled by the leading industry publication CommercialRealEstate.
• 2011 - The Order of St. Mesrop Mashtots - for a significant contribution to the defense of national interests, many years of fruitful activity in the name of Armenians, devotion shown in relation to the cause of ensuring the development and progress of the Republic of Armenia and for great services ^[9]
• 2011 - Laureate of the national prize "Person of the Year 2011" for his contribution to the economic and cultural development of the regions of Russia.
• 2012 - at the end of the year, it entered the top three in the rating of owners of commercial real estate in Russia compiled by Forbes magazine ^[10] .
• 2012 - Order of Glory and Honor II degree (ROC) - for his contribution to the restoration of the St. Nicholas Cathedral in Kronstadt .
• 2012 - at the international exhibition of commercial real estate MAPIC 2012 in Cannes awarded the title "Person of the Year".
• 2012 - Certificate of Merit of the President of the Russian Federation - for his great contribution to the implementation of measures to restore the Kronstadt Naval Cathedral in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker ^[11] .
• 2013 - following the results of 2013, it retained its place in the top three leaders in the rating of owners of commercial real estate in Russia compiled by Forbes magazine ^[12] .
• 2013 - awarded the highest award of the Armenian Apostolic Church - the Order of St. Gregory the Illuminator for his contribution to the construction of the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Lord in Moscow.
• 2014 - took second place in the rating of the largest Russian rentiers compiled by Forbes magazine ^[13] .
• 2014 - topped the rating of the most influential owners of commercial real estate in Russia, the Commercial Real Estate CRE-100 rating.
• 2014 - Commemorative medal "XXVII World Summer Universiade 2013 in Kazan"
• 2015 - retained an honorable second place in the rating of the largest Russian rentier, compiled by Forbes magazine ^[14] .
• 2015 - topped the rating of the most influential owners of commercial real estate in Russia, the Commercial Real Estate CRE-100 rating.
• 2015 - retained an honorable second place in the rating of the largest Russian rentiers compiled by Forbes magazine ^[14] .
• 2015 - Order of the Holy Right Prince Daniel of Moscow, III degree (ROC) - for his contribution to the construction of the church in the name of the holy chief hierarchs of Equal-to-the-Apostles Methodius and Cyril on Dubrovka ^[15] .
• 2015 - Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, I degree (Armenia) - for active assistance in organizing and conducting events dedicated to the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian Genocide ^[16] .

• Karapetyan Samvel Sarkisovich on the website of the Tashir group of companies
• RBC: Samvel Karapetyan “We have everything on hand control”
• Forbes: Billionaire Samvel Karapetyan “Our margin is sacred”