 Together with him in 1904 he went to Persia where he established contacts with a number of prominent revolutionaries.On June 26, 1904, Nikol Duman's group (also Sarpaz Khecho, Hakob Zavriev, Russian soldiers from Javakhk, Suren and Grish) were trying to cross Sasun.But the band fell into the trap of the Turkish-Persian border at the Razi site and was confronted with Kurdish militants and forcing a return to Salmast.