Vanik Zakaryan or Zakarian (, 21 March 1936 – 14 April 2023) was an

Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian diaspora, Armenian communities around the ...

academician, specialist on

complex analysis Complex analysis, traditionally known as the theory of functions of a complex variable, is the branch of mathematical analysis that investigates functions of complex numbers. It is helpful in many branches of mathematics, including algebraic ...

, Member of the Presidium of the

Armenian Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (NAS RA) (, ''Hayastani Hanrapetut’yan gitut’yunneri azgayin akademia'') is the Armenian national academy, functioning as the primary body that conducts research and coordinates acti ...

(2000), Vice-president (1996-2010) and then honorary vice-president (2010) of the

World Chess Federation The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE ( , ), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the gove ...

. He was awarded the Khorenatsi medal by a decree of

Robert Kocharyan Robert Sedraki Kocharyan ( ; born 31 August 1954) is an Armenian politician. He served as the President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic from 1994 to 1997 and Prime Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh from 1992 to 1994. He served as the second Presiden ...

in the first years of the third millennium. Zakaryan was born in

Meghri Meghri ( ; ) is a town and the centre of the Meghri Municipality of the Syunik Province in southern Armenia, near the border with Iran. As of the 2011 census, the population of the town was 4,580. According to the 2020 official estimate, Meghri's ...

and graduated from the

Yerevan State University Yerevan State University (YSU; , , ), also simply University of Yerevan, is the oldest continuously operating public university in Armenia. Founded in 1919, it is the largest university in the country. It is thus informally known as Armenia's ...

(1959), then worked as vice-rector for academic affairs of Yerevan State Pedagogical University. 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. For many years, Zakaryan was also one of the leading Armenian chess players. Zakaryan was twice Armenian chess champion (1961 and 1976). He was the President of Armenian Chess Federation from 1994 to 2004. Zakaryan died on 14 April 2023, at the age of 87.Ушел из жизни почетный вице-президент ФИДЕ, академик НАН Армении Ваник Закарян

References

External links

Zakaryan at sci.am
* 1936 births 2023 deaths People from Meghri Armenian scientists Soviet chess players Armenian chess players Yerevan State University alumni Chess officials Armenian sports executives and administrators {{Armenia-chess-bio-stub