Alex Sashovich

*This name uses Velkanian naming customs, although the last name is a family name. This person should be properly referred to by the given name* Alex.

**Alex Sashovich** (born **Aleksandr Pyotrovich Sashovich**; Kashan: *Александр Пётрович Сашович*; 28 December 1989) is a Velkanian politician who has served as a member of the Orthing since 2018. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party. Alex is the first person of Kashan descent to be elected to parliament in the Velkanian Isles.

Born in Tolosov to a single mother, Alex and his mother emigrated from Kasha to the Velkanian Isles in 1998, when he was eight years old. After graduating from upper secondary school in 2010, Alex began working as a barber, cutting hair at a local barbershop in Narísandur. He began his political career in 2018, after he was elected to the Orthing for the Social Democratic Party in the 2018 election.

## Early life and education

Alex was born on 28 December 1989 in Tolosov to single mother Svetlana Sashovich (born 1965), who worked as a hairstylist. His biological father was Pyotr Burmanov (1960–1997), who worked in construction and died of a barbiturate overdose in 1997, aged 37. Growing up, Alex did not have a relationship with his father, and was raised by his mother and maternal grandparents as an only child. Svetlana married Velkanian carpenter Snæbjörn Óskarsson in 1998, and the family subsequently moved to Narísandur, settling in the Ólafshólmur neighborhood. He has a younger maternal half-sister, Katrín, born  (2000-08-19) 19 August 2000 (age 23).

Alex began his education in Tolosov in 1996, attending a local, public primary school. He transferred to a Velkanian primary school after moving to Narísandur, where he struggled to learn the Velkanian language, but ultimately mastered it. Alex graduated from primary school in 2006, afterwards enrolling in a vocational college where he studied barbering. Alex graduated with qualifications to work as a barber in 2010.

## Barbering career

After graduating with barbering qualifications in 2010, Alex was hired at a local barbershop in Ólafshólmur, where he was primarily tasked with sweeping the floors and washing hair. After six months of this work, he was allowed to move up and begin cutting hair on his own.

In 2014, he transferred to a different barbershop, this time in Varmahöður. Alex worked at this barbershop for four years, until resigning from the position in 2018, in order to enter politics.

## Political career

### Member of parliament

Alex began his political career in 2018, after he was included on the electoral list of the Social Democratic Party for the 2018 election. He ultimately was elected to the Orthing, and took his seat on 30 March 2018. Upon his election, he became the first person of Kashan descent to serve in parliament.

## Personal life

Alex began an on-and-off relationship with Velkanian makeup artist Anna Björg Einarsdattir in 2008, while they were both students at the same vocational college. After breaking up and getting back together a number of times, they became engaged in 2017, and later married in 2020. They reside together in the Ólafshólmur neighborhood of Narísandur.

Alex is fluent in Velkanian, Kashan, and Ditrovian, and has called himself "mediocre" in Framish. He naturalized as a Velkanian citizen along with his mother in 2009, at age 19. After his naturalization, he renounced his Kashan citizenship.