Chaikend (Azerbaijani Çaykənd) / Getashen (Armenian Գետաշէն) is a village in Transcaucasia, 19 km south of Goygol on the banks of the Kurakchay River in its middle course. According to the administrative-territorial division of Azerbaijan (and de facto) it is located in the Goygol region of Azerbaijan, according to the administrative-territorial division of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic – in the Shaumyan region of the NKR. Before the events of 1991, the village had an Armenian population (5,000 people).

History
In the 14th century on the territory of the present with. Getashen (Chaykend) came from Ijevan and Dilijan. This is how the population of Getashen was formed. In 1828 the village became part of Russia. In 1860, the first school appeared here.
In the center of the village was the Church of Surb Astvatsatsin, a church dated 1749; the chapel where the handwritten Gospel of 1211 was kept. To the south of the village was the Yekhnasar Monastery. In the center of the village there was a three-storied house of the Melik-Shahnazaryans (later called the Dabagyan family), built by the wife of Verdi Melik-Shahnazaryan, who arrived with her two sons Hovhannes and Soghomon from Varanda after the death of her husband (Verdi Melik-Shahnazaryan, son of Avetik Melik-Shahnazaryan) in the beginning. XIX Art. Also, a school and a library were built at her expense, the tanning business, which was owned by her sons, later referred to as Dabagyan (Arm. դաբաղ), was developed.

In the winter of 1989-1990, residents of three Armenian villages located around the village of Chaikend were forced to leave their places of residence due to ongoing armed attacks on them, pressure from regional authorities and commanders of internal troops. The departure took place peacefully and the houses of the villagers were purchased by the executive committee of the district council. The deserted villages were largely populated by Azerbaijani refugees who were expelled from Armenia in 1988. Despite repeated proposals from the district authorities, the residents of Chaikend and Martunashen refused to leave their homes. After that, the inhabitants of the two villages were actually in the blockade. Communications with the outside world were cut off, food and medical supplies were carried out by helicopter from Armenia. There were regular clashes with neighboring Azerbaijani villages with the use of small arms, mortars (by the Armenian residents of the village) and hail-killing guns (by the Azerbaijanis).

In 1991, the events in Chaikend began ethnic cleansing – Operation “Ring”. On April 19, a post of internal troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs was withdrawn from Chaikend, after which cases of attacks from Azerbaijani villages became more frequent here and in Martunashen, the supply of electricity was cut off, telephone communications were lost, and helicopter flights were banned. On April 29 – May 4, 1991, units of the Azerbaijani OMON, as part of a joint operation with units of the Soviet Army and internal troops, carried out an inspection of the passport regime and seizure of weapons in the Armenian-populated villages of Chaikend and Martunashen of the Khanlar region of the Azerbaijan SSR, as a result of which more than 300 people were detained and exiled from the territory of the Azerbaijan SSR. As a result of these events, the three thousandth Armenian population of the village was forcibly evicted to Armenia. Most of the villagers were taken by military helicopters to the city of Stepanakert, and a few days later – to the city of Ijevan; several hundred men were taken by bus immediately to Ijevan.

Name
The name of the village in both Azerbaijani and Armenian has the same meaning: the first roots of Azeri. çay and arm. գետ have the meaning of “river”, and the second roots are very productive in the toponymy of Azerbaijanis. kənd- (“village, settlement, building”).