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.
[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.
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