Kʻaraglukh village was included in Khachen district, and later, in the 19th century, in Shushi uyezd of Yelisavetpol governorate. It is surrounded by mountains in the north and south and accessible only from the east and west. The majority of the population was indigenous, a segment of it moved here from Aravus (Arevis), Darbas (Darapas) and Bargushat villages of Syunikʻ region. This was one of the villages that belonged to the Gandzasar Monastery. The Shikakʻar fortress in the village played a crucial role in organising self-defence during different episodes of the region"s history. The village has become uninhabited since 1981. One part of about thirty monuments of Kuchir Shal area in Kʻaraglukh are khachkars, the others are rectangular and cradle-shaped tombstones and slab tombstones. The cemetery is located in a forest-covered section of the area called Kuchir Shal, 1,5 km south-west from Kʻaraglukh settlement of Khoramortʻ village in Askeran region.  It was not used at least from the 18th century, as the forest has covered a part of this monument group. There are no less than thirty tombstones and khachkʻars that refer to the period between the 11th and 17th centuries. Several months after the discovery of the monument group, the area was seized by the Azerbaijani military forces, and research activities were not possible to complete