The Vardenis District today constitutes a southeastern part of the Gegharkunik Province (marz).

[1] The district and its capital were originally known as Basargechar (Armenian: Բասարգեչար; Russian: Басаргечар) before being renamed to Vardenis in 1969.

[2] Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Republic of Armenia consolidated the Vardenis, Kamo, Krasnoselsk, Martuni, and Sevan districts into the larger Gegharkunik Province in 1995.

[3] According to the publication by the Central Statistical Committee in Yerevan (1980) titled Itogi Vsesoyuznoy Perepisi Naseleniya 1979 Goda po Armyaskoy SSR cited by Broers, in 1959, Azerbaijanis of the Vardenis District numbered 17,632 inhabitants, equal to 49.5% of the population.

[4] Armenian former president, Serzh Sargsyan stated in an interview with Thomas de Waal that "In Vardenis and other regions, the Azerbaijanis used to be 70 percent of the population".