GMArtur Gabrielian

Artur Gabrielian was born in Baku in 1982 and moved with his family to Hrazdan as a small child. He learned chess at eight under coach Arnold Hakobjanyan. After moving to Georgiyevsk in 1994, he repeatedly won the Stavropol regional championship. He later studied at the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism in Moscow.

Gabrielian became an international master in 2002 and reached the final of that year’s Moscow championship, losing to Vladimir Malakhov. He received the grandmaster title in 2009, when he also won the Belgorod State University Rector’s Prize tournament. He subsequently returned to Georgiyevsk and continued playing in regional events. His coaching pupils have included grandmasters Aleksey Sorokin and Semen Khanin and woman grandmaster Nadezhda Kostina.