Gay, Armenia
# Gay, Armenia

40°05′02″N 44°18′20″E﻿ / ﻿40.08389°N 44.30556°E﻿ / 40.08389; 44.30556

Gay (Armenian: Գայ) until 1978, Khatunarkh, is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia. It was founded in the 1670s, and named for the wife of Sefi Khan, Safavid governor of Chokhur-e Sa'd. In 1978, it was renamed in honour of Russian Civil War hero Hayk Bzhshkian, whose nom-de-guerre was Gay.

