Yukhari Charbakh is a village in the Iravan uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Gamarli (Artashat) district, and currently in the Ararat province. Another name for the village is “Chaharbagh”. It was marked on the five-verst map of the Caucasus.

The village was inhabited by 31 Azerbaijanis in 1831, 201 in 1873, 241 in 1886, 242 in 1897, 347 in 1904 and 386 Azerbaijanis in 1914. In 1918 the Azerbaijanis were massacred or deported by Armenian armed units and the Armenians removed from Iran and Türkiye were settled in the village. After the establishment of Soviet power in the territory of present-day Armenia, the Azerbaijanis were able to return to their homes. The village was inhabited by 177 Azerbaijanis in 1922, 201 in 1926 and 264 Azerbaijanis in 1931. According to 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, the Azerbaijanis were removed to Azerbaijan in 1948.

The toponym was coined by combining the words “yukhari” denoting a distinctive feature, “char” meaning “an abyss, a precipice”, and “bagh” meaning “a garden” in Turkic.

After the villages of Yukhari Charbakh and Ashaghi Charbakh had been merged under the name of “Charbakh”, it was integrated into the Shengavit district of the Iravan city in 1933.

Geographic coordinates: latitude 40°08’ N., longitude 44°29’ E.