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Gabrelyanov Aram Ashotovich - Russian journalist and publisher, chairman of the board of directors of Izvestia newspaper and general director of the News Media publishing house, creator of the popular tabloid in Russia - the newspaper Life.

Biography

Born on August 10, 1961 in Derbent (Dagestan).

He graduated in 1985 from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University with a degree in journalism. He was assigned to work in Ulyanovsk, where he became a correspondent for the newspaper Ulyanovsky Komsomolets, then worked there as a secretary.

On May 22, 1990, the Ulyanovsk regional committee of the Komsomol renamed the newspaper Ulyanovsky Komsomolets into the Word of Youth. Soon, Gabrelyanov became the chief editor of the Ulyanovsk youth team, who managed to raise the circulation of the newspaper from 9,000 to 210,000 copies. In 1992, the newspaper was privatized by its employees led by Aram and once again changed its name to Simbirsk Provincial News.

In 1995, Gabrelyanov bought the newspapers Local Time and Scythians in the city of Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk Region, creating the regional publishing holding Vedomosti-Media on their basis, which later included the newspapers of Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saratov and Volgograd. According to the newspaper Vedomosti, Gabrelyanov also owned the newspapers Krasnoyarsk Komsomolets and Rush Hour (St. Petersburg).

1996: Moving to Moscow

In 1996, Aram Gabrelyanov moved to Moscow and in 1997 began publishing the weekly newspaper Moskovskiye Vedomosti. In 2000, the weekly was renamed the newspaper "Life," which became famous and popular thanks to a series of scandals related to publications about the personal life of the "stars" of Russian show business. In 2006, the circulation of the publication exceeded 2 million copies.

2001: Creation of the publishing house "Life"

In April 2001, Gabrelyanov, together with six employees of the newspaper, established Life Publishing House LLC.

2005: Creation of News Media Holding

In 2005, he resigned as general director and editor-in-chief and in September created the holding OJSC News Media, which he himself headed.

In 2006, Gabrelyanov merged publications under the Life brand in 50 cities of Russia into his holding, selling 50% -1 shares for $40 million to the UFG investment group. In the fall of the same year, the daily tabloid "Your Day" was established.

In 2007 - Chairman of the Board of Directors and Editorial Director of the Holding, since 2008 - General Director of News Media.

In 2008, UFG sold its stake in the News Media holding to a certain "non-market fund of a technical nature," presumably the "National Media Group" of St. Petersburg businessman Yuri Kovalchuk.

2008: Launch of the Internet portal Life.ru

On March 11, 2008, Gabrelyanov's new project, an Internet infotainment portal, began working Life.ru.

Autumn 2009, instead of Life.ru, the Lifenews.ru information portal was launched, a glossy tabloid - Heat magazine was opened, thematic Internet portals of LifeSports.ru and LifeShowbiz.ru. began to work.

In early March 2010, the holding again began publishing the business newspaper Marker.ru.

2011: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Izvestia

In April 2011, Gabrelyanov took over as chairman of the board of directors of the Editorial Board of the newspaper, News owned by the National Media Group. Previously, Gabrelyanov was appointed Deputy General Director of the National Media Group.

After the appointment of Gabrelyanov, at the end of May 2011, the editorial office moved from Pushkin Square, where it was located since 1926 - to an office center on the territory of the Duks plant in the industrial zone of the SAO of the city. Moscow The move was associated with massive reductions in the labor collective - up to 60% of the staff were laid off, which caused a conflict in the editorial office. Some journalists refused to obey Gabrelyanov and editor-in-chief Malyutin, electing a new editor-in-chief at the meeting of the labor collective. However, this did not prevent Gabrelyanov from continuing to publish the Izvestia newspaper in a new place.

Conducting an editorial board. 2011

2017

Completion of work in LMWG

As of March 13, 2017, Aram Ashotovich Gabrelyanov works as the general director of Media Content LLC.

In May 2017, Life founder Aram Gabrelyanov left the National Media Group (NMG) holding, where he served as deputy general director. According to Dozhd, the Izvestia newspaper and the St. Petersburg Life78 channel, which are part of the NMG, were gradually withdrawn from the control of the media manager. Probably, the same will happen with the radio station "Russian News Service."

Gabrelyanov develops the portal Life.ru and the channel of the same name. However, according to the sources of the publication, these assets also do not belong to the businessman completely, and he allegedly has already begun to withdraw key employees from them.

Co-owner of the Moscow football club "Ararat"

In September 2017, he became the owner of the Moscow football club Ararat, which will be financed by the owner of the Tashir group Samvel Karapetyan and co-owner of the Avilon group Kamo Avagumyan

2018: Quitting News Media

In August 2018, the CEO of News Media Holding Aram Gabrelyanov left his post. The new head of the holding was his deputy Anatoly Suleimanov.

Gabrelyanov has recently been engaged mainly in projects not related to the media. "I assume that at some point he became uninteresting," Suleimanov said.

Family

Son - Ashot Gabrelyanov, in September 2014 resigned from the post of executive director of the News Media holding and general director of the LifeNews channel, Gabrelyanov himself told ITAR-TASS. He will focus on his own Babo project, he said.

"It will be a technological platform, software, access to which will be acquired by TV channels in the form of a license for a period of one year," Gabrelyanov said. According to him, ordinary users will upload videos to this resource that the media and TV channels can use in their work.