Pashakend was a winter pasture located in the territory of the Zangazur uezd of the former Yelizavetpol (Ganja) governorate, later in the former Gafan district, and present-day Syunik province.

Along with the Armenians, it was inhabited by 21 Azerbaijanis in 1897. After the deportation of Azerbaijanis in the early 20th century, the winter pasture was dissolved in the 1930s.

The toponym was coined on the basis of a personal name. It is an anthropo-toponym.