Vanik Zakaryan or Zakarian (Armenian: Վանիկ Զաքարյան, 21 March 1936 – 14 April 2023) was an Armenian academician, specialist on complex analysis, Member of the Presidium of the Armenian Academy of Sciences (2000), Vice-president (1996-2010) and then honorary vice-president (2010) of the World Chess Federation.[citation needed] He was awarded the Khorenatsi medal by a decree of Robert Kocharyan in the first years of the third millennium.[1]
Zakaryan graduated from the Yerevan State University(1959), then worked as vice-rector for academic affairs of Yerevan State Pedagogical University.[citation needed] A Doctor of Physico-mathematical sciences (1974) and member of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (1990), Professor Zakaryan was the head and then the dean of the Department of Mathematics of Yerevan Polytechnic from 1975 to 2017.[citation needed]
For many years, Zakaryan was also one of the leading Armenian chess players. Zakaryan was twice Armenian chess champion (1961 and 1976).[2] He was the President of Armenian Chess Federation from 1994 to 2004.
Zakaryan died on 14 April 2023, at the age of 87.[3]
References
edit- ^ "FOR GREAT CONTRIBUTION"
- ^ "All Champions of Armenia". Armchess.am. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
- ^ Ушел из жизни почетный вице-президент ФИДЕ, академик НАН Армении Ваник Закарян (in Russian)
External links
edit- Zakaryan at sci.am
- Vanik Zakaryan player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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