Mnatsakan Shakhbekyan is continuing his family’s tradition in the Kulikam village and isn’t allowing the destruction of the watermill that his ancestors had built in the 19^th century.

The first stone was laid in 1812 and led to the construction of the watermill that functions to this day. This watermill is one of the eight watermills of the Kulikam village, and like the others, it hasn’t been destroyed yet. It has stood standing during the era of collective farming when it was taken from the hands of Mnatsakan Shakhbekyan’s father. Later, old man Mnats had the watermill returned through a court appeal. Currently, there are people who want to buy the large watermill stones to display in a museum, but Mnatsakan says: “The money will be spent, but this will remain. It has been preserved all these years,” writes jnews.ge.