Vahram Gevorg Abrahamyan was born on November 16, 1953, in Talish Village of Martakert province located in Nagorno-Karabakh. The parents, Gevorg Abraham Abrahamyan and Lyuba Grigory Abrahamyan, were well-respected educators who taught in a local school of the same village. To spread the word of enlightenment, the father reached Talish village from Polygon Orphanage located in Leninakan and to serve the same purpose, the mother arrived at the village from Baku. Both parents had honoural degrees in Education, after graduating from the Pedagogical University of Azerbaijan, located in Baku.
In 1970, he completed his education in a local school. From 1970 to 1975, he successfully completed his education and graduated from the National Polytechnic University of Armenia named after Karl Marx. He was granted a degree of engineer-economist in the field of “Economics and organisation of a machine building production”.
In 1976, he was accepted for a day-time graduate study course at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, after successfully competing in the application process, and he completed his studies in 1982. In 1983, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis, being granted with a post graduate degree in the same profession.
From 1975 till 1979 and from 1982 till 2004 he worked at Machine Tool Building factory, occupying the following posts: an economist of a workshop (1975-1979), head of a bureau that supported progress in science and technology (1983-1984), senior economist (1985-1990), assistant director specialised in economic and production issues (1990-1997), head of staff and vice-president of the share holders (1994-1997).
From 1997 to 2004, he was the chief director of the ‘Machine Tool Factory’ CJSC. From 1997 to 2004, the management and production unit of the same company was completely rebuilt and restored due to his persistent efforts of the chief director. A massive production of a new type of metal-cutting machine tool was worked out, adopted and organised. This was highly demanded in overseas countries and it was completely exported. During these times, the factory successfully carried out the orders of the Defence Ministry of the Republic of Armenia, producing weapon-ware of different types and it also carried out repair work of different weapon types. He developed and improved imported weapons by the Republic of Armenia and successfully carried out the works of trailing to produce the country’s own weapon-ware. The designed weapon type exceeded the imported weapon due to its technical-operational indexes.
Since 2004 he has been lecturing at Armenian-Russian (Slavonic) University and since 2005 he has been lecturing at Yerevan State University.
In 2011, he defended his post-doctoral thesis, getting awarded with post-doctoral degree. In 2016, he received the title of a professor. He has published 99 scientific work, two of which are monographs and three are educational handbooks.
From 1991 to 1995, he was a deputy of the Yerevan City Council.
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