ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Novo-Saratovka 12 Monuments

Azerbaijan (Country) / Northern Artsakh (Area) / Getabek (District) / Novo-Saratovka (Village)

Location

The village lies in the basin of the upper course of the river Zakam, on the left bank of its left tributary Mamajan, 20 kilometres west of the district centre, between 1,200 and 1,280 metres of altitude above sea level.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 269.

Population
1770 y․

Most presumably, it was stripped of its Armenian residents in the 1770s.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 269.

1840 y․

In the 1840s, the site of the abandoned village (its historical name has sunk into oblivion) provided shelter for some Russian sectarians banished from Saratov Province. In 1844 they settled in Prince Orbelian’s domains in Lori (Tiflis Province), but in 1850 they moved to what is present-day Novo-Saratovka, then known by the name of Pentekhlu (Kaghnut) among the nearby Armenians and Turks.

Lalayan, Yer. Gandzak District. In: “Azgagrakan Handes,” vol. 5, Tiflis, 1899, No. 1, p. 358.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 269.

Name Origin

Supposedly, this name derives from the word ‘kaghni,’ i.e. the Armenian equivalent for ‘oak,’ as the area retained an oak wood (‘kaghnut’ is the Armenian equivalent for ‘oak wood’): “...First we headed westward from the bank of the river Inagboghan, left behind a hill and found ourselves on the bank of the river Mamajan. On its left side, the Malakans’ village of Pendekhlu extended east-westward. The Russians refer to it as ‘Saratovka,’ but the Armenians and Turks call it ‘Pendekhlu,’ the name probably deriving from an oak wood a little above it. Formerly, it was inhabited by the Armenians who moved away like the inhabitants of Gharamurat, unable to bear the violence perpetrated against them...”

Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, p. 33.
Lalayan, Yer. Gandzak District. In: “Azgagrakan Handes,” vol. 5, Tiflis, 1899, No. 1, p. 358.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 269.

Population
19 c․

In the ‘80s of the 19th century, about 58 families of Russian sectarians moved to the newly-established region of Kars.

Abelov, N. A. A Study of the Economic Conditions of State Peasantry in Yelizavetpol District of Yelizavetpol Province. A reprint from Materials for the Study of the Economic Conditions of State Peasantry in Transcaucasia, vol. 7, Tiflis, 1887, p. 21. Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 269.

1988 y․

Before World War II, Novo-Saratovka was a purely Russian village, but afterwards it was gradually inhabited by some stock-breeding tribes of Turkish origin. Immediately after the Armenians’ deportation between 1988 and ‘89, almost all the local residents, who had been living there for over a century and a half, were forced to leave their homes.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 269.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Pentekhlu

The available scanty statistical data indicate that the village population almost doubled in number between the late 19th and early 20th centuries:

Dates	Russian Houses	Russians (Male)	Russians (Female)	Total (Russians)	Notes	Source
1886	177	591	508	1099		Yelizavetpol Province: A Statistical Survey Based on the Family Lists of Caucasia's Population. Tiflis, 1888, pp. 86-87; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 269.
1908				1805		Caucasian Calendar for 1910, Tiflis, 1909, p. 336; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 269.
1914				2026		Caucasian Calendar for 1915, Tiflis, 1914, p. 166; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 269.
1983				2115		Soviet Azerbaijanian Encyclopedia, vol. 7, Baku, 1983, p. 283; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 269.