Alexander Saroukhan (1898-1977)

The great cartoonist Alexander Hagop Saroukhan was born on the 1st of October 1898 in Ardanoush, a town which at that time was part of Batumi province, one of the administrative regions of Trans-Caucasia, under the Russian Empire. Alexander was Hagop Zadig Saroukhanian’s third child succeeding two daughters. His father worked as a middle-class fabric trader in Ardanoush, and moved in 1900 to Batumi (the capital of the province) which was booming at that time due to its being the main passage of Baku petroleum to the external world, and naturally Hagop started working in the field of oil trade

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