View of the Arpa valley with the new dam in the background, shortly before the opening of the canal. In the foreground, from the left: the secretary Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling; the commissioner for agriculture, Ersingian; engineer Jakimov (who knew Fridtjof Nansen from the Siberian journey in 1913). 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.