Yukhari Gizgala was a winter pasture located in the territory of the Gazakh uezd of the former Yelizavetpol (Ganja) governorate, later in the former Shamshaddin (Berd) district, and present-day Tavush province. It was dissolved in 1930.

The toponym was coined from the word “gir”(giz) used in the sense of “a plateau”, “a steppe, mountain peak, mountain, hill, mountain ridge” in Old Turkic and the word “gala”. The word “yukhari” denotes a distinctive feature.