Koryunapat :: ARTSAKH LOCATIONS

1907 y․ 2 Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Gandzak (District) / Gandzak (District Centre) / Koryunapat (Quarter)

Historical Introduction
1905 y․

The quarters of Norashen and Yerevantsots having been annihilated as already mentioned, their Armenian inhabitants decided to establish another quarter in the neighbourhood of Kilisakyand out of security considerations. The new quarter, founded in 1907, was called Koryunapat in honour of Archimandrite Koryun, who had initiated and supervised its construction. Several years later, however, that clergyman was arrested on charge of adhering to Hay Heghapokhakan Dashnaktsutiun, and the local authorities renamed the quarter Yekeghetsakan Avan, i.e. Church Township, as translated from Armenian. With this regard, a record states, “After the Armeno-Turkish fights, the residents of different parts of Gandzak established a new township at the extremity of the Armenian section of the city and called it Koryunapat after Archimandrite Koryun. That dignitary was later convicted of affiliation to the Dashnaktsutiun Party and condemned to hard labour. Taking that fact into account, the present-day governor of Yelizavetpol found it inexpedient for the quarter to bear “the criminal’s disparaging name.” He ordered to change it to ‘Yekeghetsakan Avan’ in all the official documents, and all the local representatives of the Government were informed about it.”

“Zakavkazye,” 1911, No. 181, p. 3, in Russian (the original reads, “После армяно-татарской резни на окраине армянской части города образовался из разнаго пришлаго элемента новый поселок, который получил название “Корюнапат”, по имени местнаго архимандрита Корюна. Последний, как известно, судился за принадлежность к партии “дашнакцутюн” и сослан в каторжные работы. В настоящее время Елисаветпольский губернатор признавая неудобным, чтобы часть города носила “позорное имя преступника” сделал распоряжение именовать поселок во всех официальных бумагах “Церковным поселком”, о чем сообщил представителям всех ведомств в губернии”).
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 34.

1912 y․

Despite numerous measures taken on state level, the original name of the quarter was preserved, this being attested by a spate of records (such as the one on providing the quarter with potable water in 1912 at the cost of 20,000 rubles, another referring to the consecration of the newly-erected chapel of St. Sargis in 1914 as well as some others regarding the local school and different everyday problems the quarter faced) mentioning it only by the name of Koryunapat.

“Horizon,” 1912, No. 41, p. 3, in Armenian.
National Archives of Armenia, fund 409, list 1, file 2644, p. 22.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, pp. 34-35.

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Date 1910 y․

Koryunapat Quarter (1910s)

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A street in Koryunapat Quarter (1910s)

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Yekeghetsakan Avan