It is located 34 km to the north of the district center, on the left bank of the Alinjachay River, on the slope of the Zangezur ridge.

[1] The name of the village comes from the words koş (temporary housing for shepherds, homeland, stopping place, migration) and kezen (span, mountain crest) phonetic form of the word kesin/keşin in the Turkic languages and means "stopping place of shepherds on the crest of the mountain".

The Ilandagh cuneiform inscriptions show that the kings of Urartu, Ishpuini and his son Menua, attacked this area in the period when they ruled together.

[1] Qıtqın (Gytgyn) is an ancient settlement north-east of Khoshkeshin village, on the left bank of the Alinjachay River.

It is surrounded by a deep canyon to the east, high mountains in the north, and small hills along the Alinjachay in the south and west.