Shugayib was a village in the territory of the Iravan uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Vedi (Ararat) district, and present-day Ararat province. The village was marked on the five-verst map of the Caucasus.

The village was inhabited by 109 Azerbaijanis in 1886, 163 in 1897, 90 in 1904, 200 in 1914 and 192 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 who survived managed to return to their village. The village was inhabited by 44 Azerbaijanis in 1922, 35 in 1926, 47 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 lowlands of the Azerbaijan SSR” dated 23 December 1947, the Azerbaijani population of the village was forcibly deported to Azerbaijan and the village was abolished in 1950.

The toponym was coined on the basis of the word “choku (shoku)” meaning in Turkic (in the Kyrgyz, Kazakh languages) “a cone-shaped peak”.