Arikhvali is a village in the Alexandropol uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Duzkend (Akhuryan) district, and currently in the Shirak province. The provincial centre lies 12 km to the southeast of the town of Gumru. It had been within the former Gumru (Leninakan) district until 1937. It was marked in “The Iravan Province Review Book” and on the five-verst map of the Caucasus.

The Azerbaijani residents of the village moved to Türkiye after the Armenians had been settled in the territory of the Iravan khanate according to the Treaty of Adrianople (1829).

The toponym was coined by combining the Turkic ethnonym “Arig” [arıq] and the personal name “Vali”. It means “a village belonging to the Vali of the Arig (Arikh) tribe”. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR dated 21 October 1967, the village was renamed “Lernut”.

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 Shirak province.

Geographic coordinates: latitude: 40°52’ N., longitude: 43°55’ E.