Gazanchi is a village in the Alexandropol uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Gizil Goch (Gukasyan) district, and currently in the Shirak province. In their works Armenian authors and Azerbaijani researchers also referred to it as “Gayi”, “Gulu”, “Gazanchi”. The provincial centre lies 41 km to the north of the town of Gumru, at a height of 2,030 m above sea level.

Following the settlement of the Armenians relocated from Türkiye in the region according to the Treaty of Adrianople (1829), the Azerbaijanis living in the village moved to Türkiye. It was marked in “The Iravan Province Review Book” and on the five-verst map of the Caucasus.

The toponym was coined from the ethnonym “Gazanchi”, one of the Turkic Bulgar tribes, which is formed by adding the suffix “-çı” to the ethnonym “Gazan”.

Currently, the name of the settlement is referred to as “Ghazanchi” in official documents in Armenian. According to the law “On the administrative-territorial division of the Republic of Armenia” dated 7 November 1995, it was integrated into the administrative territory of the Shirak province.

Geographical coordinates: latitude: 41°04’ N., longitude: 43°49’ E.