Samvel Karapetyan is a unique businessman and philanthropist. He, one of the few, managed to reach unprecedented financial heights, starting with minimal capital. His biography is an example for those who want and can work, but do not have patrons and sponsors.
The success of Samvel Karapetyan is not only a subject of interest, but also a subject for gossip. Many media outlets are trying to ascribe to him closeness to crime, but there was no clear evidence that he started with the money of the underworld. Everyone who knows this businessman is confident in his honesty and the purity of his sources of income.
Biography of Samvel Karapetyan
Samvel Sarkisovich was born in Armenia, in the small village of Kalinino (Tashir - since 1995), in August 1965. The family of the future billionaire was average, humanitarian - his father worked as a school director, and his mother worked as a foreign language teacher.
Being the son of respected people, the young man cannot let them down, he studied at school, and then at the Polytechnic Institute of Yerevan perfectly. Immediately after graduating from the university, Karapetyan went to work at the enamel products plant, first as a chief technologist, and then became its director.
Samvel began to develop his own business in 1997, after the acquisition of the unprofitable Kalugaglavsnab company and the formation of the Tashir construction and industrial holding holding. Thanks to the thoughtful and detailed planning, including the economic management, the company developed rapidly.
In just 3 years, the holding included not only narrowly focused enterprises, but also hotel complexes, organizations for the supply and sale of all types of goods, shopping and entertainment centers, energy assets.
Since 2000, Karapetyan's Tashir charitable foundation has been functioning, which assists in the creation and development of sports and medical facilities, helps to preserve and restore historical monuments in Armenia and Russia, and is engaged in social support for those who find themselves in difficult situations.
Samvel Karapetyan's family
There is practically no information about Karapetyan's wife in the media. It is only known that she is Russian, not Armenian. But the names of Samvel's three children are already known and recognizable:
- daughter Tatevik, born in 1990, became a businesswoman, runs a network of cinemas and is vice president of Tashir Group of Companies,
- son Sarkiz born in 1992 - holds the same post as his sister,
- the youngest son Karen studies at MGIMO, but already has a position at the Tashir Group of Companies.
Armenian legends can be written about Samvel Karapetyan's boundless love for his children. For them, he spares nothing - magnificent and expensive celebrations, the best education. But the father demands a lot from them. All the offspring of Karapetyan studied well, the elders received honors at universities. The press tried to find a trace of his father in their approach to the successful completion of their education, but as unsuccessfully as in attempts to catch Karapetyan in connection with crime, to make this topic one of the versions of building a successful career for this Russian businessman of Armenian origin.
