It is located in the near of the Ordubad-Nakhchivan highway, 12 km in the south-east from the district center, on the left bank of the Aras river.

There are two secondary school, two library, club, communication branch, kindergarten and hospital in the village.

[1] During the period of late antiquity, Dəstə, known by the Armenian name of Dasta (Դաստա; also, Dastak, Դաստակ), was an Armenian-populated village in the Kingdom of Armenia and was administratively a part of the province of Vaspurakan's district of Goght'n.

[2] In later centuries, its Armenian population emigrated and settled in nearby settlements, especially Agulis and Shusha.

[2] The remains of two partially destroyed Armenian churches were still preserved at the end of the Soviet period.