SHIDLI (GARAGOYUNLU SHIDLI)

The village is located in the Aran part of Vedibasar district, in the Agyrdag valley, opposite Mount Agyr, on the bank of the Araz River, 13 km southwest of the village of Boyuk Vedi, the center of the Vedi district.

Only Azerbaijani Turks lived in the village.

In 1832, 263 people (135 men, 128 women) lived in 35 families in the village of Shidli of Vedibasar district, in 1873 - 806 people (453 men, 353 women) lived in 106 families, in 1886 - 823 people (460 men, 363 women) lived in 127 households, in 1897 - 993 Azerbaijani Turks.

In 1918-1920, the village was destroyed by the Dashnaks, the surviving population of the village emigrated to another part of Araz.

After the establishment of Soviet power in the region, 571 villagers who returned from exile restored the village and began a peaceful life. In 1926, 607 people were registered in the village, in 1931 - 465 people, and in 1972 - 1,357 people of the Azerbaijani population were registered in 236 households.­

Before the events of 1988, the village of Shidli was the only pure Azerbaijani village on the territory of the Vedi district.

In a rapidly developing village, the population in 1988 had already reached 1,900 people in 400 households, who, to the last person, were expelled and evicted from the village on December 3, 1988. On the same day (December 3), servicemen who arrived with tanks and armored personnel carriers from the Sharur district of Nakhchivan broke through the blockade and entered the village, filling each of the 3-4 families in one armored vehicle, took them through the border strip and delivered them to the territory of Nakhchivan. People were forced to leave all their belongings, saving their souls.

On April 9, 1991, the village was renamed to Yehegnavan.

1950-         Inscriptions on a large piece of stone, images of horses and sheep, which remained on the territory of the village of Shidli until the 1950s, were signs of the history of the village of Shidli for 1300- 1350 years ago.­ But, unfortunately, the Armenians took out a stone with the name of the historical monument and destroyed it. On the territory of the village - between the Gakhanov canal and the Meshadi Seyfulla Arch there is a large ram's horn in a place calledGochdashi, a small stone statue of a horse the size of a horse named Atdashi in the old village cemetery, called the Sunni Cemetery, confirms that these places have been Turkic lands since ancient times.

On the bank of the Araz, at the beginning of the Meshadi Seifullah arch, there was a sanctuary called ojag Piral-Mursal ­or ojag Ilygynly - this sanctuary was the place of faith of the villagers.