Guzugudan is a village in the Echmiadzin uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Gurdugulu (Hoktemberyan) district, and currently in the Armavir province. The provincial centre lies 10 km to the southeast of the town of Serdarabad (Hoktemberyan, Armavir), near the Araz River, at a height of 950 m above sea level. The original, older name for the village was “Guzukutan”. In “The Iravan Province Review Book” compiled in 1728 the name of the village is marked as “Guzugudanli”, and it is indicated that “the population of the village is from the Mursalli community”. In the works of Armenian authors the name of the village is marked as “Guzigeden”, “Guzigedan”, “Kuzikutan”, and on the five-verst map of the Caucasus as “Kuzikuden”.

Historically, the village was inhabited by Azerbaijanis. After the Treaty of Turkmenchay in 1828, the Azerbaijanis were deported from their historical and ethnic lands, and in 1828- 1830 the Armenians from the Turkish provinces of Alashkirt, Surmali and Mush were settled in that village.

The toponym was coined on the basis of the ethnonym “Guzugudanli” of the Turkic Afshar tribe. It is an ethnotoponym.

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR dated 19 April 1950, the village was renamed “Aygeshad”. According to the law “On the administrative-territorial division of the Republic of Armenia” dated 7 November 1995, it was integrated into the administrative area of the Armavir province.

Geographical coordinates: latitude: 40°04’ N., longitude: 44°04’ E.