Hayanist

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, 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 ; finally, it received the name Hayanist in 1991 following the exodus of its Azerbaijani population.

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:

Ownership	Private
Inhabited space	10.3 desyatinas
Orrigated plowed fields	209 desyatinas
Unirrigated fodder fields	4.75 desyatinas
Total land	224.5 desyatinas
Total households	110
Total income	8,414.65 rubles
Total land taxes	655.78 rubles
Army tax	142.29 rubles
Upkeep of officials	456.87 rubles
Total revenue	1,254.94 rubles
Large livestock	176
Units of water used for irrigation	8

In 1988–1989, the village's Azerbaijani population was exchanged with Armenians from Azerbaijan during the tensions of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The population of Hayanist since 1831 is as follows: