Bayandur is a village in the Zangezur uezd of the Iravan governorate, later in the former Gorus district, and currently in the Syunik province. The provincial centre lies 87 km to the north of the town of Gapan, and at a height of 1,550 m above sea level. The settlement was integrated into the administrative area of Armenia following the establishment of the Zangezur uezd in Soviet Armenia on 31 August 1921. It was marked on the five-verst map of the Caucasus. In their works the Armenian authors indicate the name of the village as “Bayandur I” and “Bayandur II”.

The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 101 in 1831, 514 in 1873, 869 in 1886, 363 in 1897, 830 in 1904 and 409 Azerbaijanis in 1914. In 1916 the village was exposed to Armenian aggression, and the Azerbaijanis were completely deported from their historical-ethnic land. The Armenians removed from abroad were settled in the village. Since 1918 the village has been inhabited by Armenians.

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

The village was renamed “Vaghatur” by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR dated 7 May 1969. 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 Syunik province.

Geographic coordinates: latitude: 39°36’ N., longitude: 46°22’ E.