[4] In 1974, the community was given the status of urban-type settlement and renamed Byureghavan, after its well-known cut glass factory of the town.

Byureghavan is built on Kotayk plateau on the left side of Hrazdan gorge, at a height of 1,300 metres (4,300 feet) above sea level.

[5] During the ancient Kingdom of Armenia, the area of modern-day Byureghavan was part of the Kotayk Canton of Ayrarat province.

In November 2011, the statue of Karabakh War hero Samvel Vartanyan was erected in Byureghavan in the yard of the town's high school.

During the 1970s, Byureghavan and the surrounding localities were turned into an active industrial hub within the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.

The town is also home to the Byuregh Alco wine-brandy-vodka factory founded in 1996, as well as many plants for the production of building materials.

[11] The Byureghavan school of sport was opened in 1989 and currently has football, athletics, sambo, judo, wrestling and boxing teams.