| Official Name: | Mkhitarashen / Mukhtar |
| Native Name: | Մխիթարաշեն / Muxtar |
| Pushpin Map: | Azerbaijan |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Subdivision Type2: | Country |
| Subdivision Name2: |  Azerbaijan |
| Subdivision Type3: | District |
| Subdivision Name3: | Khojaly |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population As Of: | 2015 |
| Population Total: | 91 |
| Timezone: | AZT |
| Utc Offset: | +4 |
| Coordinates: | 39.7614°N 46.7744°W |
Mkhitarashen (Armenian: Մխիթարաշեն) or Mukhtar (Azerbaijani: Muxtar) is a village located in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The village was known as Mkhitarikend (Armenian: Մխիթարիքենդ; Azerbaijani: Mxitarikənd; Russian: Мхитарикенд) during the Soviet period.[2]
During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Askeran District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. The village has been administrated as part of the Askeran Province of the Republic of Artsakh after the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
There was some initial confusion regarding control of the village after the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war,[3] [4] however, on 1 March 2021, the Armenian news organization CivilNet published a video report from the village, confirming continued Artsakh control.[5]
Historical heritage sites in and around the village include a 17th/18th-century cemetery and the 19th-century church of Surb Astvatsatsin (Armenian: Սուրբ Աստվածածին,).[1] A monument in honor of the 18th-century Armenian satirist and fabulist Pele Pughi was built in 1976 between Mkihtarashen and Shosh.[6]
The population is mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. As of 2015, the village has a municipal building, a house of culture, and a medical centre. Students study in the secondary school of the neighboring village of Shosh.[1]
The village has an ethnic Armenian-majority population, had 90 inhabitants in 2005,[7] and 91 inhabitants in 2015.[1]