Most of the Kingdom of Iberia, including the cities of Ardahan, Lori, Dmanisi, Lomsia, Mtskheta, and Tontio became Byzantine dependencies.
The city of Dzhalal-Ogly in the Armenian SSR was also renamed, in Shahumyan's honor, Stepanavan, a name it has retained in post-Soviet Armenia.
It is about 11 km south-east of Stepanavan (about 20 minutes by car) and is close to the villages of Vardablur and Gyulagarak.
Kuciukian worked to install an outpatient clinic in Spitak and two schools in Stepanavan.
It is 42 km north of the provincial centre Vanadzor, in a valley on the road Stepanavan-Tbilisi highway, at a height of 1500 metres above sea level.