Secret on the Iranian Border

Along with hundreds of Armenian families from Aleppo, Armen's family also immigrated to Soviet Armenia in 1947. Armen had worked for a construction company in Aleppo from a very young age and had built roads in the Deir ez-Zor desert, where he found and collected the bones of his compatriots who had perished during the Armenian Genocide in 1915. He had loved, and been loved by, his boss's daughter, but that love did not have a happy ending. Having learned about his previous work experience, in Soviet Armenia, he was accepted into a military construction organization, and this time, he built roads in his new homeland. Soon, he was sent to repair a road in a neighboring republic, the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. While working there, he was surprised to find a place on the Iran border that would soon become a secret.