Ruins of a fortress in the vicinity of Sardarabad. One of the pictures from the trip through Armenia, in the period June 7 to July 2, 1925. On request of the International Labour Union (ILO) and the League of Nations, Fridtjof Nansen travelled together with an appointed committee of experts, visiting the country and looking at the plans for artificial irrigation of parts of the desert, in order to relocate refugees there.