Korpugulaghi

Korpugulaghi was a village in the territory of the Iravan uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Gamarli (Artashat) district, and present-day Ararat province. It was located near the Davagozu River and the village of Aysor Golu. The village was marked on the five-verst map of the Caucasus. Another name for the village was Korpukend. The village was within the former Vedi (Ararat) district in the 1930s.

The village was inhabited by 129 Azerbaijanis in 1831, 143 in 1873, 200 in 1886, 351 in 1897, 219 in 1904, 470 in 1914 and 478 Azerbaijanis in 1916. The Azerbaijanis were attacked, massacred or expelled from the village by Armenian armed units in 1918. After the establishment of Soviet power in present-day Armenia, the Azerbaijanis managed to return to their village. The village was inhabited by 150 Azerbaijanis in 1922, 141 in 1926 and 174 Azerbaijanis 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 resettlement of collective farmers and other Azerbaijani population from the Armenian SSR to the Kur-Araz lowland of the Azerbaijan SSR” dated 23 December 1947. At present, it lies in ruins.

The toponym was coined by combining the words “korpu” and “gulag” meaning “an edge, a corner”.