Voghji, Shirak

Voghji (Armenian: Ողջի) is a village in the Shirak Province of Armenia.[1][2][3]

Voghji
Ողջի
Voghji
Voghji
Coordinates: 40°48′34″N 43°45′10″E
CountryArmenia
ProvinceShirak
MunicipalityAmasia
Population
 (2001)
 • Total602
Time zoneUTC+4

The village had been settled with Azerbaijanis before they left during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. In 1988-1989, Armenians from Ninotsminda region of Georgia, Spitak earthquake zone and Azerbaijan settled in the village.[4]

Population

According to 1912 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, 930 people, mainly Karapapakhs, lived in village Okhchoglu of Kars Okrug of Kars Oblast.[5]

The population of the village since 1886 is as follows:[6]

Year Population
1886 551
1897 747
1926 799
1939 1,093
1959 1,032
1970 1,412
1979 1,504
1989 110
2001 602
2004 631
  • Village before exodus of Azerbaijanis
  • Azerbaijani pupil of Okhchuoghlu school, 1984

References
  1. USSR Report. POLITICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL AFFAIRS.
  2. Бакинские ведомости. «ЦИВИЛИЗОВАННЫЙ» АРАмагеддон
  3. Felix Tsertisivadze. THE FORGOTTEN GENOCIDE. New York. 2005. ISBN 978-0-9741857-4-3. p. 48
  4. "Ողջի" (PDF). shirak.mtad.am. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
  5. Кавказский календарь на 1912 год [Caucasian calendar for 1912] (in Russian) (67th ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1912. Archived from the original on 11 December 2021.
  6. Հայաստանի Հանրապետության բնակավայրերի բառարան [Republic of Armenia settlements dictionary] (PDF) (in Armenian). Yerevan: Cadastre Committee of the Republic of Armenia. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2018.


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