GARAGYSHLAG (HAJI BAYRAM, DOSTLUG)

A village in the Zangibasar district, 9 km northwest of the village of Ulukhanli, the center of the Zangibasar district, on the right bank of the Zangi river, on a watercourse, on the edge of the Garnigez river.

Only Azerbaijani Turks lived in the village.

In 1832 151 Azerbaijanis (84 men, 67 women) lived in 23 households in the village, in 1873 - 735 people (389 men, 346 women) in 77 households, in 1886 - 751 people (468 men, 283 women) in 93 households, in 1897 - 1007 people, in 1905 - 832 people, in 1914 - 1123 people.

Garagyshlag was one of the villages most destroyed and subjected to murders and robberies as a result of the Armenian-Dashnak attacks in the Irevan province in 1918. Those who survived the Armenian massacre took refuge on the other side of Araz.

In the first years of Soviet power, the survivors of the village had the opportunity to return to their native village, after two or three years they began to rebuild the destroyed village. In 1922, 514 people returned, in 1926 their number increased to 753 people, and in 1931 - to 850 people.­­

During the genocide of Western Azerbaijanis in 1988, all the villagers were forcibly expelled from their native lands. On November 28, at 3 p.m., the civilian population, seeing the impossibility of providing armed resistance to organized Armenian gangs that suddenly attacked the village, was finally forced to take refuge on the border with Turkey, and a few days later, with the assistance of the military, rushed to Nakhchivan.­­­ Meanwhile, about 3,500 Azerbaijanis lived in 580 households in the village.­ During these events, a resident of the village,Tagiyev Mushvig Tagy oghlu, born in 1955, was brutally murdered, becoming a victim of Armenian violence.

On January 25 , 1978 , the village was renamed toDostlug, and on April 19, 1991 - to Khayanist.

There was a place called Kharaba village between Garagyshlag village and Demirchi village. Excavations were carried out in these ruins in the 1970s, numerous remains of tendir and ancient graves were discovered.

There were two mosque buildings in the village, one of which was in ruins, and the other functioned until 1988.

The village cemetery was located on the outskirts of the village.

Ojag, called in the village Seyid ojag, was a place of faith and worship of people. This ojag was in the house of Grandmother Beyim. Hajjar Beyim was also from the Seyids of the village.