Chanakhchi was a village in the territory of the Zangezur uezd of the former Yelizavetpol (Ganja) governorate, later in the former Gafan district, and present-day Syunik province. The name of the village was marked on the five-verst map of the Caucasus.

The village was inhabited by 50 Azerbaijanis in 1897. Armenians carried out massacre in the village in 1905–1906. Later, Armenians were settled in the village. In the 1930s the village was abolished.

The toponym was coined on the basis of the Turkic ethnonym “Chanakhchi”.