Tombstones in the village of Pambak

In the village of Pambak (Gushchu, Göldek, Pambakli) in the Basarkechar district of the Goycha district

Basarkechar district – Vardenis since 11.06.1938

Architecture

After the residents of the village of Goturbulag were deported from Armenia in 1988–1989, some of the tombstones in the village's ancient cemetery were destroyed by Armenians. The remaining tombstones were decorated with Armenian elements and nationalized.

In the area called Duzdagh in the village of Pambak, there were many tombstones 2–3 meters high and 0.7–0.8 m wide. These monuments belonging to the ancient Oghuz Turks were present not only in the area of ​​Pambak village, which is located on the shore of Lake Goycha, but also in all the areas around Lake Goycha. This was also noted in his works by the famous Russian scientist and archaeologist A.A. Ivanovsky, who conducted research and archaeological excavations in those areas in 1893-1896. Images of the Moon and the Sun were carved on these stones.
In 1873, 166 people lived in the village, in 1886 - 237, in 1897 - 283, in 1908 - 352, in 1914 - 392, in 1916 - 331, and in 1919 - 398. In the spring of 1919, the village was subjected to the Armenian genocide, and the surviving Azerbaijanis were deported. After the establishment of Soviet power in present-day Armenia, the Azerbaijanis who were forced to leave the village were able to return to their historical lands. In 1922, 390 Azerbaijanis lived here, in 1926 - 349, in 1931 - 512, in 1987 - 2000. In late November - early December 1988, the population of the village was deported from their historical and ethnic lands and Armenians were settled in the village. Armenians still live in the village now.
In the "Comprehensive Book of Yerevan Province", it is marked as "Gushchu", and on the 5-mile map of the Caucasus it is marked as "Gushi Valley". In Armenian sources, as well as in official documents of the 20th century, the name of the village is indicated as "Pembak". Another name for the village was Pembakli.

The toponym is formed from the combination of the Turkic ethnonym "Kushchu" and the word "dere", which means "a long deep hole between two mountains or hills, as well as in a plain." It means "a village in the ravine where the Kushchu tribe lives." It is an ethnotoponym. It is a structurally complex toponym.