Hayanist

Hayanist () is a village in the Ararat Province of Armenia. The distance from Yerevan is 15.4 km. Despite the favourable location of the community (proximity to Yerevan and abundance of good agricultural land), 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 ha of the Community's agricultural land are not irrigated.
Toponymy.
The village was known as "Gharaghshlar" until 1978, then renamed "Dostlugh" until it was renamed Hayanist in 1991.
Demographics.
151 people lived in the village in 1831, rising to 735 by 1873, 1007 in 1897, 872 in 1904, 1123 in 1914 and 1052 Azerbaijanis in 1916. The number dropped to 514 inhabitants by 1922. The village had 753 inhabitants by 1926 and 850 residents by 1932, all of them Azerbaijanis.