From 1926 he settled in Yerevan where he quickly established his reputation as a gifted writer with his first collection of short stories entitled Mtnadzor [The Dark Valley].

A colleague and friend of Yeghishe Charents, Bakunts was a member of the former's Armenian Association of Proletarian Writers.

Although loyal to the USSR, Bakunts fell victim to the Stalinist terror and was accused of various crimes including alienation from socialist society.

[3]  The museum includes four small rooms that display Bakunts' furniture, correspondence, and books, as well as household items, valuable pictures, documents, stories and novels that were published in periodicals.

A 1927 collection of his short stories, "Mtnadzor," was translated into English by Nairi Hakhverdi as "The Dark Valley" and published by the Gomidas Institute in 2009.