A horse statue on a grave in the village of Zolahach (Zolaghac)

In the village of Zolahach (Zolagach) of the Qaranlig district of the Goycha district

Garanlig district – Martuni, Zolakhach village, since 03.01.1935 Zolakar

Architecture

In the present period, the cemetery area where the horse statue is located has been destroyed by Armenians, and houses have been built in many parts. The horse statue is a monument that is still there in an undamaged state. It has been nationalized by Armenians and is presented as an "Armenian monument".

The tomb horse statue is located in the ancient cemetery in the village of Zolagach. The statue is carved from gray rock stone. The monument is rectangular in shape. A long braid-shaped pattern is depicted on the right and left sides of the upper waist of the monument. The same pattern is also on the ribbon around the neck. It is about 1 meter long and 0.5–0.6 meters high. On the sides, there is a long wavy pattern under the braid-shaped pattern.
The name of the village of Zolagach is found in the list compiled by I. Chopin. In 1831, the population of Zolagach, consisting only of Azerbaijanis, was 128 people. In the information for 1873, Zolagach was already included in the list of mixed settlements: 75 Armenians and 153 Azerbaijanis. After this date, the demographic balance rapidly changed in favor of the Armenians due to those brought from Turkey. In 1897, the number of Armenians in the village was almost 3 times higher than the number of Azerbaijanis: 286 Armenians and 107 Azerbaijanis. In 1918, during the massacres committed by the Dashnak troops in Goycha, 131 Azerbaijanis in the village were subjected to genocide, and the survivors left the village. After 1922, the Azerbaijanis who returned to the village and restored their lives there were resettled in Azerbaijan in 1948.

The horse and ram sculptures represent the cultural richness that stretches from the Caspian coast to the interior of Anatolia. These monuments show that the Turkic-Oghuz tribes lived in those areas.