Yukhari Aghjagala is a village in the Echmiadzin uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Talin district, and currently in the Aragatsotn province. The provincial centre is located 40 km to the northwest of the town of Ashtarak, located on the southwestern side of Alagoz Mountain and at a height of 1,600 m above sea level. The village was also noted as “Yukhari Hajigala”. It was marked on the five- verst map of the Caucasus.

The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 70 in 1831, 354 in 1873, 405 in 1886, 489 in 1897, 306 in 1904, 406 in 1914, 500 in 1916 and 308 Azerbaijanis in January 1918. In February 1918 the Azerbaijanis, the original inhabitants of the village, who were exposed to Armenian aggression, were massacred or deported. In 1915–1918 Armenians were removed from the villages of the Turkish provinces of Sasun, Mush and Bayazid and the Mosul province of Iraq and settled in the village. Having falsified historical facts in their works, Armenian authors indicate that the village was inhabited by Armenians in 1831–1897 and the Azerbaijani inhabitants of the village were introduced as Armenians.

The name of the settlement was coined by combining the words “yukhari” denoting a distinctive feature in Azerbaijani toponymy, the word “aghja” meaning “whitish or grayish field, area” in Turkic and “gala” to denote “a settlement near the fortress built on grayish soil.”

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Armenian SSR dated 12 November 1946, the village was renamed “Verin Bazmaberd”. 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 Aragatsotn province.

Geographic coordinates: latitude 40°22’ N., longitude 44°01’ E.