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Occupation
  
Property developer

Children
  
3

Name
  
Samvel Karapetyan


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Born
  
August 18, 1965 (age 58) (
1965-08-18
)
Kalinino, Soviet Armenia, USSR (present-day Tashir, Armenia)

Alma mater
  
Yerevan Polytechnic Institute

Net worth
  
$4.0 billion (February 2015)

Samvel Karapetyan (born July 31, 1965; Armenian: Սամվել Կարապետյան; Russian: Самвел Карапетян) is an Armenian-born Russian businessman, the owner of the real estate firm Tashir Group.

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Biography

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Karapetyan graduated from the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute in 1986. He moved to Russia in the 1990s and in 1997, he became the president of the Kaluga-based Kalugaglavsnab OAO, which provides logistics services. In 1999, he established the Tashir Group.

Personal life

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He is married with three kids (two sons and a daughter).

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His brother, Karen (arm), is a politician from the Republican Party of Armenia and a member of the National Assembly.

In 2011 Armenian President awarded Karapetyan with the Mesrop Mashtots Medal "for significant contribution to the promotion of national interests, long term and fruitful pro-Armenian activities, dedication to the development and advancement of the Republic of Armenia and provided services."

Wealth

According to Forbes, his net worth in February 2015 was $4.0 billion. In March 2013 Karapetyan became the richest ethnic Armenian in the world, overtaking Armenian-American businessman Kirk Kerkorian.

References

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