Jafarabad is a village in the Echmiadzin uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Gurdugulu (Hoktemberyan) district, and currently in the Armavir province. The provincial centre lies 13 km to the southwest of the town of Serdarabad (Hoktemberyan, Armavir), on the left bank of the Araz River, and at a height of 880 m above sea level. It was marked on the five-verst map of the Caucasus.

Historically, the village was inhabited by Azerbaijanis. Armenians were removed to the village basically in 1917–1918 from the Iranian province of Khoy and from the Turkish provinces of Surmali and Mush.

The toponym was coined by combining the personal name “Jafar” and the Persian borrowing “abad” denoting “an organized place with a lot of constructions and all kinds of living conditions”. It is a toponym.

The village was renamed “Getashen” by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR dated 4 April 1946. 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 Armavir province.

Geographic coordinates: latitude: 40°02′ N., longitude: 43°56′ E.