Hayanist () is a village in the Masis Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia. The distance from Yerevan is 15.4 km. Despite the favourable location of the community (proximity to Yerevan and abundance of good agricultural land), most households cannot provide for their living and heads of families often chose the labour migration as the only solution of their problems. Around 160 hectares of the community's agricultural land are not irrigated.
Etymology The village was originally known as Gharaghshlar, Gharaghshlagh, or Kara-Kishlak (; ; ), meaning black kishlak. In 1978, the village was renamed Dostlug or Dostlugh (Dostluq, meaning "friendship"); finally, it received the name Hayanist in 1991 following the exodus of its Azerbaijani population.
History Hayanist, then known as Kara-Kishlak, was part of the Erivan uezd of the Erivan Governorate within the Russian Empire. Bournoutian presents the statistics of the village in the early 20th century as follows: OwnershipPrivateInhabited space10.3 desyatinas (0.11 sq km)Orrigated plowed fields209 desyatinas (2.28 sq km)Unirrigated fodder fields4.75 desyatinas (0.05 sq km)Total land224.5 desyatinas (2.45 sq km)Total households110 (All Tatar)Total income8,414.65 rublesTotal land taxes655.78 rublesArmy tax142.29 rublesUpkeep of officials456.87 rublesTotal revenue1,254.94 rublesLarge livestock176Units of water used for irrigation8 In 1988–1989, the village's Azerbaijani population was exchanged with Armenians from Azerbaijan during the tensions of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Demographics The population of Hayanist since 1831 is as follows: YearPopulationNote1831151100% Muslim1873735100% Tatar188675118971,007100% Muslim190483219141,123Mainly Tatar19161,052191901922537514 Turks, 23 Armenians1926754753 Turks, 1 Armenian; 398 men1931850100% Turkish19591,17919701,84319791,89620012,14420112,117
External links
World Gazeteer: Armenia – World-Gazetteer.com
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Further reading ME&A / Clean Energy and Water Program - "Irrigation Rehabilitation in Hayanist Village", USAID