Burial mounds (monuments, tools, valuables) in the village of Ordakli

In the village of Ördekli, Kavar district, Goycha district

Kavar district, Sevan, Ordakli village – Lchashen (Golkend) since 26.04.1946

Archaeological monument

The mound tombs in the fortress were destroyed by Armenians after archaeological excavations. The objects excavated during the archaeological excavations were taken to the city of Yerevan and Armenianized by adding Armenian elements. They are exhibited in museums as historical objects belonging to the Armenians.

The objects found in the mounds in the Ordakli fortress prove that the history of settlement of the Turkic tribes, of which Azerbaijanis are also descendants, dates back to very ancient times. During excavations in the village of Ordakli (now the village of Ljashen, Sevan region), A. Mnatsakanyan, an employee of the History Museum of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, discovered mounds dating back to the end of the second millennium BC, that is, at least 3000 years old, and found a large number of bronze weapons and household items, as well as gold products from those mounds. The hoard was truly rich: bronze jewelry, weapons, gold bracelets and necklaces, and the remains of special wooden beds for placing corpses were found in the mounds. Opinions about the date of the finds were unanimous; Moscow archaeologists unequivocally confirmed that the found objects date back to the middle of the second millennium BC, that is, they have a history of at least 3500 years. Academician B. Piotrovsky, after studying these finds of Mnatsakanyan, said that "... these objects testify to the high culture of the people living here. They belong to the leaders of local tribes who fought against Urartu during its movement towards Transcaucasia." The results of this study confirmed that the original owners of Goycha had no connection with Urartu, and most importantly, that the original owners of Goycha, the Turkic tribes, had "developed to the level of creating examples of high culture" as early as the 12th-11th centuries BC.

The toponym was formed on the basis of the ethnonym "uddekli" specific to the Golden-headed Turkic tribes. It is an ethnotoponym. It is a simple toponym in structure.