Hrachya Rukhkyan was born in Alexandropol. In 1935 he finished Yerevan Art College, in 1941 Tbilisi Art Academy. He participated in World War II. Studied at the Baku infantry school for four months in 1941, was injured in 1944 and was demobilized. War and labor veteran Hrachya Rukhkyan was awarded the “Order of the Great Patriotic War” 2nd degree. Hrachya Rukhkyan created graphic images, still lives and landscapes, painted 120 churches. In 1983 in Stepanakert he founded art school, to which he dedicated 60 of his works. He had solo exhibitions in Yerevan, Moscow and Tbilisi. Died in Yerevan.
