Sargis Araratyan was a chemist by profession, as well as a public figure, a statesman and a prominent politician, a member of the ARF (Armenian Revolutionary Federation).

Hovannisian describes Sargis Araratian in The Republic of Armenia, Vol.

II:[1]... like other Dashnakist intellectuals, [Araratian] served as teacher, editor, and field-worker.

He later earned a doctorate in chemistry at the University of Geneva, while collaborating with Mikayel Varandian in the management of Droshak (“Banner”), central organ of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.

After his return to the Caucasus, Araratian was first attached to one of the Armenian volunteer regiments as a propagandist and then participated in the defense of Baku in 1918.