Gravestone statues of a horse and a ram in the village of Gölkend (Göl).

In the village of Golkend (Gol) in the Qaranlig district of the Goycha district

Garanlig district – Martuni, Golkand village since 03.01.1946 it has been renamed Lichk. It means "lake".

Architecture

Until 1988, when Azerbaijanis were deported, some of the Oghuz cult examples, such as ram and horse statues, remained. In later periods, Armenian elements were added and presented as an "Armenian monument."

The tombstones of a horse and a ram are located in an ancient cemetery in the village of Golkend, 8 km from the district center, on the current Martuni-Kamo highway, approximately 800 meters west of the village's modern geographical location, on the shores of Lake Goycha.
In addition to Albanian tombstones and 2–3 meter high Oghuz tombstones, the cemetery also contained numerous tombstones of horses and rams belonging to other tribes of the Oghuz Turks. During the deportations of 1918–1920 and 1948–1953, the horse and ram statues were destroyed by the Armenians along with other monuments. The length of the ram statues was about 1.2–1.5 m, and the height was 0.5–0.6 m, and they were carved from rock.
This village is marked on the 5-mile map of the Caucasus. Later, the geographical name of the village in the oikonomia Golkand was abbreviated and recorded in the Armenian sources in the form of Gol .
In 1555, it was one of the units included in the administrative division of the Chukhur-Saad beylerbeyli of the Safavid-Azerbaijani state. From the notes made on page 12 of the "Comprehensive Book of the Iravan Province" compiled by the Ottomans in 1728, it is clear that, according to the administrative division applied by the Ottomans, the village of Gol was included in the administrative territory of the Goycha district and its annual payment to the sultan's treasury was determined in the amount of 3823 akhs.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the village, which was given to the administration of the newly created Armenian province, was one of the largest settlements in the Goycha basin that was considered suitable for living at that time. According to the lists compiled by I. Chopin, in 1831 the number of Azerbaijanis reached 573 people. In the village of Gol, in 1886 the number of Azerbaijanis decreased from 573 people in 1831 to 370 people, while the number of Armenians increased from zero to 284 people. In 1914, the number of Azerbaijanis was 4 times lower than in 1886 - 86 people, while the number of Armenians increased 2 times and reached 532 people. In 1918, the Azerbaijani population of the village was subjected to the Armenian genocide and the survivors had to leave the village.

Monuments are material evidence of the ancient history of this land, indicating that it is an Oghuz people.
The toponym is formed from the combination of the word "lake", which in Azerbaijani means "a natural body of water not directly connected to the sea", and the word "village". It is a hydrotoponym. It is a structurally complex toponym. The name of the village was translated into Armenian as Lichk (Lake).