ULUKHANLI

The village, since 1971 an urban-type settlement, the administrative center of the Zangibasar district, and then the Zangibasar district, 20 km from the city of Irevan, on the Irevan-Nakhchivan-Baku railway line, on the left bank of the Zangi River.­­

Until 1918, only Azerbaijani Turks lived in the village, from 1921 to 1988, Azerbaijanis and Armenians.

In 1832, 1,737 Azerbaijanis (970 men, 767 women) lived in the village in 311 households, in 1873 - 2,968 people (1,549 men, 1,419 women) in 454 households, in 1886 - 3,062 people (1,672 men, 1,390 women) in 493 households, in 1897 - 3,062 people, in 1905 - 3,171 people, in 1914 - 3,200 people.

In 1918, under the leadership of Andranik, a terrible genocide of Azerbaijanis was committed in the village, the village of Ulukhanli with a population of 3,173 people in 500 farms in early 1918 was destroyed, looted, burned, part of the population was brutally killed, the survivors were forced to leave their native land.­­­

After the establishment of Soviet power in the region, the surviving refugee population of the village returned. In 1922, 1,882 Azerbaijanis and 9 Armenians were registered in the village.­ These 9 people were the first Armenians to settle in Armenian Ulukhanli. In 1926, there were 1948 Azerbaijanis in the village, and only 5 Armenians.

In 1948-1949, the population of the village was forcibly deported to the Ali-Bayramli district of Azerbaijan, Armenians resettled from various foreign countries settled in the deserted Azerbaijani houses.

Although later part of the population deported from Ulukhanli returned, since the 1950s Armenians have already become predominant in the village.­

The Armenians changed his name four times in a row in order to lose the Ulukhan oikonym. In the 1920s , the ancient name of the village Ulukhanli village was renamed to Narimanli, December 31, 1937 was renamed again to Zangibasar, ­then after a short time to Razdan, and on July 31, 1950 – to Masis.

In 1988, the Azerbaijani population of the village of Ulukhanli stood face to face with another genocide, during which Armenian bloodsuckers brutally killed eight of our compatriots.­

In the past, almost every district in Ulukhanli had its own mosque. There were seven of them: Azamanlylar Mosque, Elatlar Mosque, Torlu Mosque, Baltamammedliler Mosque, Garagajlar Mosque, Gadimalylar Mosque, Nyuhyulular Mosque. In these mosques, along with the performance of religious rites, along with religious conversations, conversations are held on world events, common problems, charity, and other topics.­ One of the mosques was two-storied, women prayed at the top, men prayed at the bottom.­

Almost all the mosques were in ruins. Of the survivors, 1 was used as a warehouse of the state farm, 1 as a school, 1 as a library of the Department of culture. In the 1970s, the mosque officially resumed its activity in Ulukhanli.­ This mosque, ­located between the village of Elatar and the Red Quarter, was also called the Kullukbashi Mosque. In 1988, the Armenians burned it.­ According to the latest data, the Armenians destroyed this mosque.

In the past, there were three Muslim cemeteries in Ulukhanli. Two of them turned into ruins, only one remained. The first cemetery of Ulukhanli was in Aghamzali, the so-called The marble district, where the marble deposit was located. In 1938-1939, in connection with the production of marble here, the society was offered a separate cemetery. The old cemetery was also in Ulukhanli.

According to Professor Sadig Shyukurov, "the area of the rural cemetery was four hectares.­ There were equestrian statues on the graves, and on some tombstones the sun and the horse symbol were carved"

Until 1947, there were only 3 Armenian families in the village, who were also engaged in small crafts. ­In 1947, 70 Armenian families resettled from abroad, mainly from Syria, Iran and Turkey, were placed in Ulukhanli. But soon they moved to the city of Irevan.

In the autumn of 1948, about 150 households from the village of Ulukhanli were deported to the Garajalar state farm in the Ali Bayramli district of Azerbaijan, and 155 households were deported to Baku.­ Many Azerbaijanis stayed in Ulukhanli. Most of those deported in the 1950s returned. In connection with the deportation of Azerbaijanis in 1949, a significant number of Armenians from the Yelenov and Shamsaddin districts of “Armenia“ were taken out and placed in Ulukhanli.­­­

The next genocide of the Ulukhans occurred in 1988. The Armenians, with unprecedented atrocities, eventually expelled the Ulukhan population from their historical lands. During these events, three people from Ulukhanli were killed by Armenians: 1. Jafarova Safa Novruzali kyzy, born in 1982; 2. Gurbanov Gurbanali Abdulgusein oghlu, born in 1934; 3. Gurbanov Abbas Abdulgusein oghlu, born in 1946.