The opening of the new Sjirakski Canal. In the background, the exit from a tunnel. In the foreground: Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling; Ersingian and the president of the Republic of Georgia. 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.