Akarak was a village in the territory of the Iravan uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Ellar (Kotayk, Abovyan) district, and present-day Kotayk province.

The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 114 in 1873, 155 in 1886, 204 in 1897, 170 in 1904, 211 in 1914 and 225 Azerbaijanis in 1916. The Azerbaijanis were atacked, massacred or expelled from the village by Armenian armed units in 1918. Later, the village was abolished. At present, it lies in ruins.

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