Gulujan

Gulujan is a village in the Iravan uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Zangibasar (Masis) district, and currently in the Ararat province. It is located at the confluence of Araz and Zangi Rivers.

The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 75 in 1894, 63 in 1905, and 81 Azerbaijanis in 1914. The population of the village emigrated to the other side of the Araz River, that is to Türkiye, together with the population of neighboring Azerbaijani villages having been exposed to Armenian aggression in 1917–1918, and returned to their native village following the establishment of Soviet power in the region. 67 Azerbaijanis returned to the village in 1922, but the number of the inhabitants of the village decreased to 59 people in 1931. The village was subordinated to the Seyidkend Soviet (a rural council). The population of the village, which was once again exposed to genocide in 1950, was completely deported to Azerbaijan, and the village was abolished and its territory was integrated into the Kalinin sovkhoz-settlement newly established on the basis of the Habilkend village. Although the Gulujan population, who returned a few years later, lived in their native village, the official documents listed them as the residents of the Kalinin settlement. The toponym was coined on the basis of the personal name. The shrine of Aghadede, the sacred temple of the Zangibasar people, was located adjacent to the Gulujan village.

Geographical coordinates: latitude: 40°01’ N., longitude: 44°25’ E.