Its population is busy with gardening, farming, animal husbandry.

There are secondary school, club and a medical center in the village.

[1] The village was an important settlement of the Vaspurakan province of the Kingdom of Armenia or the Vaspurakan Kingdom, and many Armenian merchants trading along the Silk Road were said to have Agulis as hometown.

[3] However, the Armenian presence in Nakhchivan was steadily extinguished in the 20th century, and with it the religious and cultural testaments to the historical Armenian presence in Agulis.

Malik Ibrahim's grave is inside this sanctuary, who had died in 1419.