ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Fizuli 1 Monuments

NKR (Country) / Fizuli (District) / Fizuli (District Centre)

Foundation
1827 y․

The present-day administrative center - town of Fizuli was established by the Russian colonists in 1827, in a place called Gharabulagh. Later the village was renamed to Koryazino. The town as well as the district was renamed to Fizuli in 1959.

Azerbaijanian Soviet Encyclopaedia, vol. X, Baku, 1987, p. 17 (in Azerb.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 221.

Population
1827 y․

The settlement named Gharabulagh was established in the place of the present day Fizuli in 1827. It’s only inhabitants initially were the members of a Russian sect (molokans), later the small village community was fulfilled by the Turks and Kurds, and a small number of Armenians. In 1986 Gharabulagh still remained a purely monoethnical Russian village (45 households, 213 residents, of which 104 male and 109 female), while in 1915 the number of Russians (65 households) in Gharabulagh then renamed to Koryazino, was already less than the number of the Turks. As witnessed by the records of that period “Koryazino is the commercial centre of the villagers of Varanda and Dizak provinces. The overwhelming majority of its population is Turks, mainly occupied with trade. The second largest community after the Turks is the molokans’... Their main occupation is agriculture. They have greatly promoted the cultivation of orchards. Particularly the Armenians here are in insignificant minority, some of them are shop owners, others are tailors or shoe-makers...” Both, the Turks and Armenians were mainly immigrants from Shushi, because owing to its convenient geographical position the settlement established by the Russians had become the place of weekly fairs.

"Update of Statistical Data Derived from the Household Lists of the Caucasian Settlements. Yelisavetpol Province", Tiflis, 1888, p. 174.
A. A., Impressions of Koryagino, "Mshak", 1915, N 86 Arm.).
L. Hovsepian, A Letter from Karabakh, "Msliak", 1905, N 132, p. 2 (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, pp. 223-224.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Gharabulagh
Koryagino