Aralig Kolanli is a village in the Echmiadzin uezd of the Iravan province, later in the former Uchkilsa (Echmiadzin, Vagharshapat) district, and currently in the Armavir province. The provincial centre lies 24 km to the southeast of the town of Gumru, on the western side of Alagoz Mountain, at a height of 840 m above sea level. It was marked as “Aralikh” on the five-verst map of the Caucasus. The name of the village is pointed out both as Aralig [Aralıq], as well as Aralig Kolanli in the works of Armenian authors.

The village was inhabited by only 284 Azerbaijanis in 1831, 676 in 1873, 701 in 1886, 886 in 1897, 768 in 1904, 887 in 1914, 772 in 1916 and 1,118 Azerbaijanis in 1919. In late 1919 the inhabitants of the village were massacred or deported having been exposed to Armenian aggression. The village was resettled by the Armenians who had been removed from abroad. The surviving Azerbaijanis, who had left the village, managed to return to their ancestral land following the establishment of Soviet power in the present-day Armenian territory. The village was inhabited by 224 Azerbaijanis in 1922, 248 in 1926 and 294 Azerbaijanis in 1931. According to 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 lowland of the Azerbaijan SSR” dated 23 December 1947, the Azerbaijanis were forced to flee to Azerbaijan from their historical-ethnic land in 1948–1949. “The Dictionary of the Toponyms of Armenia and Surrounding Provinces” printed in Armenian in 1986 introduces the Azerbaijani population living there as the Armenian population as if Armenians had historically lived there. This is one of the Armenian falsifications.

The toponym was coined on the basis of the word “aralig” used in Azerbaijani in the meaning of “the middle, between two places” and the Turkic tribal name “Kolani” with the Azerbaijani possessive ending “-lı” and denotes “a village in the middle belonging to the Kolani tribe”.

The village was first renamed “Aralig”, then by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR dated 25 January 1978, it was further renamed “Griboyedov” (after the Russian writer and diplomat). 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.

Geographic coordinates: latitude: 40°06’ N., longitude: 44°16’ E.