Akhta is a village in the Sharur-Daralayaz uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Pashali (Azizbeyov, Vayk) district, and currently in the Vayots Dzor province. It is situated on the bank of the Akhtachay Mountain River, which is the left tributary of the Arpa River, at a height of 1,650 m above sea level. It was marked in “The Iravan Province Review Book”, on the five-verst map of the Caucasus.

The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 187 in 1831, 290 in 1873, 304 in 1886, 426 in 1897, 458 in 1904, 504 in 1914 and 463 Azerbaijanis in 1916. In 1918 the residents of the village were deported having been exposed to Armenian aggression. The survivors managed to return to their ancestral land only after Soviet power had been established in the present-day Armenian territory. The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 129 in 1922, 131 in 1926, 199 in 1931, 268 in 1939, 202 in 1959, 379 in 1970. In 1988 the residents of the village, the Azerbaijanis, were deported from their historical-ethnic land by the state of Armenia. At present, the village is inhabited by Armenians.

The toponym was formed on the basis of the ethnonym “akhta” of the Turkic Padar tribe.

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 Vayots Dzor province.

Geographic coordinates: latitude: 39°38’ N., longitude: 45°33 E.