 Daniel Bek-Pirumyan was arrested and executed by the Bolsheviks in Karakilisa in 1921.In 1937 during the Joseph Stalin's Great Purge against the military and other suspected enemies, his secret police arrested Movses Silikyan, Christophor Araratov, Dmitry Mirimanov, Aghasi Varosyan, Stepan Ohanesyan, Hakob Mkrtchyan, and Harutyun Hakobyan imprisoned and finally executed in Nork gorge.Aghbalyan moved to Lebanon, directed Nshan Palanjian seminarium in Beirut.