Rudik Makarian

Rudik Yurikovich Makarian is a Russian chess grandmaster.

Chess career

Makarian was born on 30 July 2004 in the village of in the municipality of Akhalkalaki, Georgia.
He won the U-16 World Youth Chess Championship in 2019 and the Russian Junior Chess Championship in 2020.
He qualified to play in the Chess World Cup 2021 where he was defeated 1½-½ by Kacper Piorun in the first round.
Top 32 Juniors FIDE February 2024.
He became a grandmaster in 2025, 6 years after becoming an international master, in 2019.