Voghji ( hy, Ողջի) is a village in the

Amasia Municipality Shirak ( hy, Շիրակ, ) is a province ('' marz'') of Armenia. It is located in the north-west of the country, bordering Turkey to the west and Georgia to the north. Its capital and largest city is Gyumri, which is the second largest city in ...

of the

Shirak Province Shirak ( hy, wikt:Շիրակ, Շիրակ, ) is a provinces of Armenia, province (''Administrative divisions of Armenia, marz'') of Armenia. It is located in the north-west of the country, bordering Turkey to the west and Georgia (country), Geor ...

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Ox ...

. In 1988-1989, Azerbaijanis of the village moved to Azerbaijan, leading to Armenians from the

Ninotsminda Ninotsminda (Georgian: ნინოწმინდა ; Armenian: Նինոծմինդա) is a town and a center of the eponymous municipality located in Georgia's southern district of Samtskhe-Javakheti. According to the 2014 census the town h ...

region of Georgia, the

Spitak Spitak ( hy, Սպիտակ), is a town and urban municipal community in the northern Lori Province of Armenia. It is north of the capital, Yerevan, and west of the provincial center, Vanadzor. Spitak was entirely destroyed during the devastatin ...

earthquake zone, and Azerbaijan to settle in the village.

Demographics

According to 1912 publication of '' Kavkazskiy kalendar'', there was a mainly

Karapapakh The Karapapakhs or Tarakama ( az, Qarapapaqlar, Tərəkəmələr; tr, Karapapaklar, Terekemeler) are a Turkic people, who originally spoke the Karapapakh language, a western Oghuz language closely related to Azerbaijani and Turkish. Nowad ...

population of 930 in the village of Okhchoglu of the Kars Okrug of the

Kars Oblast The Kars Oblast was a province (''oblast'') of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire between 1878 and 1917. Its capital was the city of Kars, presently in Turkey. The ''oblast'' bordered the Ottoman Empire to the west, the Batum Oblast ...

. The population of the village since 1886 is as follows:

Gallery

File:Okhchuoglu before deportation.jpg, Village before exodus of Azerbaijanis File:Pioneers of Okchuoglu middle school, 1984.jpg, Azerbaijani pupil of Okhchuoghlu school, 1984

References

* * Populated places in Shirak Province {{Shirak-geo-stub