Shinuhayr (Armenian: Շինուհայր) is a village in the Tatev Municipality of the Syunik Province in Armenia, 9 km south of Goris, on the left bank of the Vorotan River, on the plateau, about 1500 meters above sea level.

The village under the name of Shinher was included in the Zangezur uezd within the Elizavetpol Governorate of Russian Empire.

[4] Perhaps with this in mind, some authors later used the forms of Shinu hayr or Hayrashen, that is, 'the father of villages'.

[3] During the Syunik rebellion in the 1720s, the Armenian military leader Davit Bek made Shinuhayr his first base of operations and began repairing the settlement's fortress.

[7] The population is engaged in vegetable farming, cultivation of grain and fodder crops.