page_title: Hrant Vardanyan
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Hrant Vardanyan / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Русский: С родительями и сестрами, 1954
context_page_description: Hrant Vardanyan was an Armenian businessman and the pioneer of domestic Armenian manufacturing, the founder and the president of the leading national corporation Grand Holding and philanthropist. Honored Worker of Economy of the Republic of Armenia
context_section_description: Hrant Vardanyan was born on January 23, 1949, in Yerevan, Armenia in a working-class family. 
  From 1956 to 1966 he studied at the Kirov high school No. 12 in Yerevan, Armenia. 
  From 1968 to 1974 he studied at the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Machine Building and Mechanical, majoring in food-industry engineering. Since 1990 - Candidate of Economics. Non-partisan.
  Thanks to Hrant Vardanyan, the celebration of the International Labor Day has been resumed in the Republic of Armenia as a state holiday since May 1, 2000. 1998-2003 Vardanyan was the President of the Basketball Federation of Armenia, 1992-2001 Board
  Member of the National Olympic Committee of Armenia, 2003-2014 Member of the Board of Trustees of Yerevan State Engineering University.
  Hrant Vardanyan died on April 20, 2014. He is buried at Yerevan City Pantheon.
caption: With parents and sisters, 1954
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