Voghji () is a village in the Amasia Municipality of the

Shirak Province Shirak (, ) is a provinces of Armenia, province () of Armenia. It is located in the north-west of the country, bordering the provinces of Lori Province, Lori to the east and Aragatsotn Province, Aragatsotn to the south and southeast, and the cou ...

Armenia Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to ...

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

Spitak Spitak (), 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 devastating 1988 Armenian e ...

earthquake zone, and Azerbaijan to settle in the village.

Demographics

According to 1912 publication of ''

Kavkazskiy kalendar ''Kavkazskiy kalendar'' (, ) was an annual almanac published in Tiflis (present-day Tbilisi) in the Russian Empire by the office of the Viceroy of the Caucasus from 1846 to 1917. History ''Kavkazskiy kalendar'' contained a large number of ethno ...

'', there was a mainly Karapapakh population of 930 in the village of Okhchoglu of the Kars Okrug of the Kars 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