Akhund Buzovand is a village in the Iravan uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Gamarli (Artashat) district, and currently in the Ararat province. The provincial centre lies 6 km to the northeast of the town of Gamarli, on the bank of the Garni River, at a height of 860 m above sea level. It was marked as “Buzovand” in “The Iravan Province Review Book”, on the five-verst map of the Caucasus. The Armenian literature states that the village was founded in 1831. “The Iravan Province Review Book” compiled in 1728 stated Buzovand too as one of the villages within the Garni area. The income of the village made up 11.500 akchas.

The village was inhabited by 137 Azerbaijanis in 1831, 210 in 1873, 254 in 1886, 341 in 1897, 322 in 1904, 385 in 1914 and 299 Azerbaijanis 1916. In 1918 the Azerbaijanis were deported having been exposed to massacre by Armenians. The Armenians removed from the Khoy and Salmas areas of Iran were settled there. The Azerbaijanis managed to return to their native village following the establishment of Soviet power in the present-day Armenian territory in 1922. The village was inhabited by 161 Azerbaijanis, 11 Armenians in 1926, 195 Azerbaijanis, 19 Armenians in 1931. By the special decisions of the USSR Cabinet of Ministers, the Azerbaijani inhabitants were deported to Azerbaijan in 1948–1949. At present, the village is inhabited by Armenians.

The toponym is the ethnonym formed by combining the ethnonym “buz” (boz) reflected in the ethnonym “the Bozal”, one of the Turkic Khazar tribes and the Turkic ethnonym “abant” (avand). The word “akhund” used at the beginning of the toponym is a word used in a religious sense.

The village was renamed “Buzovand” in 1920, later renamed again “Berdik” by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR dated 25 January 1978.

Geographic coordinates: latitude: 40°00’N., longitude: 44°34’ E.