Gurdgalag is a village in the Zangezur uezd of the Yelizavetpol (Ganja) province, in the former Gorus district, and currently in the Syunik province. It lies 26 km to the southeast of the town of Gorus, on the right side of the Gorus- Gafan highway. Following the establishment of the Zangezur uezd in Soviet Armenia on 31 August 1921, the settlement was integrated into the administrative territory of Armenia.

The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 30 in 1897, 54 in 1904 and 44 Azerbaijanis in 1914. In 1918 the villagers were attacked by Armenian armed forces and left the village. The Azerbaijanis who left the village returned to their historical and ethnic lands after 1922, following the establishment of Soviet power in the territory of present-day Armenia. The village was inhabited by 37 Azerbaijanis in 1926, 49 in 1931, and 248 Azerbaijanis in 1979. In late November 1988, the Azerbaijanis were completely deported by the Armenian government. Currently, the village is inhabited only by Armenians.

The toponym was coined by combining the Turkic ethnonym “Gurd” and the word “kulak” (qulaq) used in Turkish to mean “a valley, hollow, depression”.

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR dated 3 April 1991, the name of the village was changed to “Ghurdgullag”, and by decision of the Armenian Parliament dated 4 July 2006 it was renamed “Vanand”. 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 Syunik province.

Geographical coordinates: latitude: 39°20’ N., longitude: 46°26’ E.