Samvel Karapetyan: Russian-Armenian billionaire, who owns the Tashir Group conglomerate
Written byTimes Magazine
Samvel Karapetyan is an Armenian-Russian businessman, property engineer and extremely rich person. Karapetyan was born in 1965 in Soviet Armenia, presently known as Tashir. He is the author of the Tashir Gathering and has a total assets of around US$4.3 billion.
CHILDHOOD
Samval Karapetyan finished his schooling at Yerevan Polytechnic Establishment in Armenia in 1986. In 1990 he got back to Russia.
CAREER
The initial phase in Karapetyan's vocation in the land area was dealing with a retail outlet project. In 1997 he was delegated in the job of leader of Kalugaglavsna OAO, a coordinations administrations organization in Kaluga. Karapetyan worked at Kalugaglavsna for a very long time prior to dispatching Tashir Gathering in 1999.
BUSINESS DEALINGS
Tashir Gathering is a multi-faceted business working in an assortment of ventures, including development, retail, account, power, advancement, cafés and producing. Tashir Gathering has a considerable power of more than 45,000 representatives working for them at in excess of 200 organizations. The Gathering is one of the significant business land engineers in Russia and claims in excess of 30 malls all through Russia under the brand name of RioMall. Tashir additionally possesses ten inn networks that work more than 25 Russian areas and nine office places. An income stream of US$610 million was gathered by the gathering in 2015 for rented space. In spite of the monetary emergency, Karapetyan keeps on purchasing property. In May 2015 Forbes revealed that he intends to contribute a further US$800 million to work more than 4,000,000 square feet of private, office and retail space. Karapetyan's business domain is supposed to incorporate transactions with the travel industry and development authorities in Armenia's capital city, Yerevan.
Kaskad Property was dispatched under the umbrella of Tashir Gathering with the point of wandering into power, development, foundation and common offices projects.
FAMILY LIFE
Samvel Karapetyan is hitched and has two children and a girl. He has a sibling named Karen who is an individual from the Public Gathering and a legislator from the Conservative Alliance of Armenia.
AWARDS
In 2011 Karapetyan was given the Mesrop Mashtot Award by the Armenian president. The decoration is given out of appreciation for his, 'huge commitment to the advancement of public interests, long haul and productive supportive of Armenian exercises, devotion to the turn of events and progression of the Republic of Armenia'. In 2012 he was picked as the 'Character of the Year' in the 'Russian Nation of Honor' program.
WEALTH
In Walk 2013 Samvel Karapetyan got known as the most affluent ethnic Armenian on the planet when he surpassed Kirk Kerkorian in riches. Kirkorian is an Armenian-American financial specialist. As in May 2015 Karapetyan had an expected total assets of US$5.3 billion as per Forbes, an amazing US$1.3 billion more than what was assessed just a brief time before that in February 2015 when his abundance was assessed at US$4 billion. The extreme expansion in total assets made Karapetyan the 29th most extravagant individual in Russia, and furthermore put him in the 353rd opening of the World Tycoons list.