In October 1977, at Tashkent Airport, a KGB officer noticed a woman carrying a bag similar to a reconstructed picture of a bomb sent by the KGB to all local branches.[1] It turned out that these bags were manufactured only in Yerevan.[4] In November 1977, Stepan Zatikyan, a founding member of a splinter group of the National United Party, an underground Armenian nationalist organization, was arrested. His accomplices, Zaven Bagdasaryan and Hakop Stepanyan, were also taken into custody[8] after an unsuccessful attempt to detonate a bomb at the Kursky Rail Terminal in Moscow.[4]