Kolanli was a village in the territory of the Echmiadzin uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Zangibasar (Masis) district, and present-day Ararat province. The village had been integrated into the former Uchkilsa (Echmiadzin, Vagharshapat) district until 1937. Another name for the village was “Kolanli Aralig”.

The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 284 in 1831, 673 in 1873, 701 in 1886, 886 in 1897, 768 in 1904, 887 in 1914, 768 in 1918 and 1,118 Azerbaijanis in 1919. The Azerbaijanis were attacked, massacred or ousted from the village by Armenian armed formations in late 1919. The Armenians removed from Iran and Türkiye were settled in the village. After the establishment of Soviet power in present- day Armenia, the Azerbaijanis who survived managed to return to their own lands. Along with the Armenians, the village was inhabited by 224 Azerbaijanis in 1922, 248 in 1926 and 294 in 1931.

The village was abolished after the Azerbaijani inhabitants of the village had forcibly been deported to Azerbaijan in accordance with the decision of the USSR Council of Ministers on “The Replacement of Collective Farmers and Other Azerbaijani Population from the Armenian SSR to the Kur-Araz Lowlands of the Azerbaijan SSR” dated 23 December 1947. The toponym was coined by adding the identifying suffix “–li” to the Turkic ethnonym “Kolani” meaning “a place belonging to the Kolani tribe”.