[2] Based on the Soviet-Iranian treaty (1963), in connection of construction of the Araz Water Reservoir, its population was moved to the new territory.

In 1969, during the investigations of the "Araz" archaeological and ethnographic expedition of Archeology and Ethnography Institute of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, in the Xarabaşəhər and Muncuqtəpə settlements of the Middle Ages, near the Garachug were found the rich artifacts of the cultural materials.

[1] Since June 9, 2009, by the decree of the President of the Azerbaijan Republic, the Garachug village of the Babek District is included in the scope of the administrative territorial unit of Nakhchivan city.

The area of the necropolis was stuck in the middle of the water in the island form when happened the flood in the Araz River, a part of the graves located on the sandy hill were washed out and destroyed.

The headstones of these monuments were made mostly from flat stone slabs; the top side of some of them were completed in the form of crown.