Garagala was a village in the territory of the Novo-Bayazid uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Akhta (Hrazdan) district, and present-day Kotayk province. It was located on the bank of the Miskhana River and near the village of Taycharikh. The name of the village was written in “The Iravan Province Review Book”.

The village was inhabited by 76 Azerbaijanis in 1831, 140 in 1873, 227 in 1886, 261 in 1897, 290 in 1908, 413 in 1914 and 247 Azerbaijanis in 1916. The Azerbaijanis were attacked, massacred or expelled from the village by Armenian armed formations in 1918. Only after the establishment of Soviet power in present-day Armenia, the Azerbaijanis managed to return to their village. The village was inhabited by 83 Azerbaijanis in 1922, 132 in 1926 and 193 Azerbaijanis in 1931. The village was abolished after the Azerbaijani population of the village had been deported to Azerbaijan in accordance with the decision of the USSR Council of Ministers “On the resettlement of collective farmers and other Azerbaijani population from the Armenian SSR in the Kur-Araz lowland of the Azerbaijan SSR” dated 23 December 1947. At present, it lies in ruins.

The toponym was coined by combining the word “gara” meaning the black colour and the word “gala”.