Gülüstan or Gulistan (Armenian: Գյուլիստան, romanized: Gyulistan; ultimately from Persian gulistān 'rose garden') is a village in the Goranboy District of Azerbaijan.
[3] Gülüstan is historically significant as the village near the site where the Treaty of Gulistan was signed between the Russian Empire and Qajar Iran on 12 October 1813, concluding the nine-year-long Russo-Persian War.
[6] In the Soviet times, the village was part of the Shaumian District, an administrative unit outside the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast with an ethnic Armenian majority.
On 3 March 1992, an Armenian transport helicopter Mi-26 carrying around 50 women and children from Gülüstan on board was shot down with a MANPADS rocket fired from Azerbaijan-controlled territory, killing 16 people.
[8][9] Notable natives of the village include Garegin Balayan (1912–1943, Hero of the Soviet Union)[10] and Shahen Meghrian (1952–1993, NKR military commander of Shahumyan region).