Yukhari Garagala was a village in the territory of the Borchali uezd of the former Tiflis governorate, later in the former Vorontsovka (Kalinino) district, and currently in the Lori province. After being merged with the village of Ashaghi Garagala in the 1930s, the village was abolished. The merged villages were officially noted as the village of Garagala. The village was officially within the former Jalaloghlu (Stepanavan) district until 1937.

The village was inhabited by 183 Azerbaijanis in 1886, 273 in 1897, 205 in 1908, 154 in 1922, 146 in 1926 and 175 Azerbaijanis in 1931.

The toponym was coined by combining the words “yukhari” which is a distinctive feature, “gara” meaning “the black colour” and “gala”. The village received its name from “the fortress built of the black stone”.