ARAZDEYEN

The village is located in the central part of Vedibasar district, 28 km southwest from the Boyuk Vedi village, the center of Vedi district, on the border of the district with Nakhchivan AR (Sharur district), on the Irevan-Nakhchivan highway and Irevan-Nakhchivan-Baku railway line.

Previously, only Azerbaijani Turks lived in the village, then, along with Azerbaijanis, Muslim Kurds, Yezidi Kurds, and Armenians.

There was a railway station of the same name in the village of Arazdeyen. Another road, which started from Arazdeyen, stretched along the Bagirsak Gorge and, passing through the villages of Kyarki, Keshishveran and Chanakhchi, led to the Daralayaz district and from there to the Sisyan district. It was one of the busiest caravan roads connecting in ancient times the state of Albania with the states of Armenia and Atropatene.­And the lands extending towards Sharur ended at the border of the Vedic and Sharur districts - in a place called Mount Vali and Gurdagzi.

In 1897 in the village lived 381 people - Azerbaijanis and Armenians.

The village of Arazdeyen, which was repeatedly destroyed during the Armenian-Muslim war of 1918-1920, later lost its function­ and turned into a small village, and after the war of 1941-1945 began to revive. On July 3, 1968, the village was Armenianized and renamed Yeraskh.

Until recently, Azerbaijanis, Muslim Kurds, Yezidi Kurds, and Armenians lived in the village in an assimilated manner. The Muslim population of the village was expelled from their homeland during the genocide of Western Azerbaijanis in 1988 and settled in different regions­of Azerbaijan.