ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Khachakap-Armavir 2 Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Khanlar (District) / Khachakap-Armavir (Village)

Location

The village lies in a plain adjoining the right bank of the river Kurak, 14 kilometres south-east of the district centre, between 940 and 1,060 metres of altitude above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 396.

Foundation
1884 y․

It was established in 1884 by 30 Armenian families which had left Khachakap (Ghushchi, Kushchi) because of the shortage of arable lands. The site they had chosen for further residence was occupied by “...Tiflis-based Mr. Pavli Khan’s estate named ‘Gharabulagh.’ It forms part of Gandzak Diocese and extends within a distance of 70 to 75 versts of Khachakap. The soil of the area as well as its healthy air and water made the resettlers buy that territory for about 30 thousand rubles and build their homes there...”

“Nor-Dar,” 1892, No. 52, p. 2.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, pp. 396-397.

Within several years, the Armenians paid back the debt they had borrowed to pay for their newly-founded village; moreover, they carried out large-scale construction in the newly-founded village so that visitors and the inhabitants of the neighbourhood could not hide their surprise at it: “These people, comprising 25 families mostly from Khachakap, moved to this village belonging to the late Mr. Melik-Beglariants due to the lack of land in their former place of living. It is already ten years since these peasants, who were almost in abject poverty, purchased a land of three thousand dessiatinas for thirty thousand rubles, but within this short period of time, they paid back their debt at the expense of the income yielded by their forest. Apart from possessing fields and mountain encampments, they also hold control over a group of Turkish houses. The inhabitants of Getashen and Gharabulagh, who constitute 500 houses, with their fields adjoining these large lands, are now greatly puzzled and perplexed. A handful of people managed to buy these lands and pay back their debt, something they had not been able to do! Moreover, they were busy building fine-looking houses with tiled roofs, something rare in the quarter of Igirmidort. ...Today they even think of erecting a church and have selected a very convenient site in the village for that purpose... The village, which originally did not have a name of its own, is now called Armavir, which sounds alien to the Armenians who are accustomed to referring to it by the Turkish name of Ghushchi... ...our villagers have conveyed the water of a fine spring from a remote place, spending quite a large amount of money on it.”

“Nor-Dar,” 1896, No. 139, p. 3.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 397.

Population
1989 y․

After the deportation of 1989, most of the Armenians of Kushchi-Armavir resettled in the sub-district of Vardenis located in Gegharkunik Marz of the Republic of Armenia.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 397.

Type Photo
View Exterior
Direction From the south
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Colour Negative
Date 1980 — 1982 yy․

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Kushchi-Armavir

The available sources have preserved only scanty statistical reports relating to the population of the purely Armenian-inhabited village of Kushchi-Armavir. Despite this, however, the existing data reveal that its residents continuously increased between

Dates	Armenian Houses	Armenians (Male)	Armenians (Female)	Total (Armenians)	Notes	Source
1896	25					“Nor-Dar,” 1896, No. 139, p. 3; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 397.
1907				261		National Archives of Armenia, fund 56, list 1, file 240, p. 2; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 397.
1908	28	169	127	296	According to another statistical source of 1908, Kushchi-Armavir had 204 residents (Caucasian Calendar for 1910, Tiflis, 1909, p. 186).	National Archives of Armenia, fund 35, list 1, file 559, p. 8; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 397.
1914				353		Caucasian Calendar for 1915, Tiflis, 1914, p. 90; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 397.
1917	40			243		Avetissian, M. M. A Reference Book on the Settlements and Population Number of Nagorno Karabakh and Zangezur (1917). In: “Banber Hayastani Arkhivneri,” 1991, No. 3, p. 166; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 397.