Zirak was a village in the Sharur-Daralayaz uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Pashali (Azizbeyov, Vayk) district, and present-day Vayots Dzor province. It was located on the bank of the Zirakchay, the left affluent of the Arpachay. The village was marked on the five-verst map of the Caucasus.

The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 43 in 1831, 169 in 1873, 218 in 1886, 223 in 1897, 433 in 1914 and 423 Azerbaijanis in 1916. The Azerbaijanis were attacked, massacred or expelled from the village by Armenian armed units in 1918. After the establishment of Soviet power in present-day Armenia, the Azerbaijanis managed to return to their native lands between 1923 and 1924. The village was inhabited only by 158 Azerbaijanis in 1926 and 545 Azerbaijanis in 1931. In accordance with the decision of the USSR Council of Ministers “On the resettlement of collective farmers and other Azerbaijani population from the Armenian SSR to the Kur-Araz lowland of the Azerbaijan SSR” dated 23 December 1947, the Azerbaijani population of the village was forcibly deported to Azerbaijan and the village was abolished. At present, it lies in ruins.

The toponym was coined on the basis of the ethnonym “Sirag”, one of the ancient Turkic tribes.