| Sighnag / Sghnakh | |
| Native Name: | Sığnaq / Սղնախ |
| Pushpin Map: | Azerbaijan#Karabakh |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Azerbaijan |
| Subdivision Type1: | District |
| Subdivision Name1: | Khojaly |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population As Of: | 2015 |
| Population Total: | 292 |
| Timezone: | AZT |
| Utc Offset: | +4 |
| Coordinates: | 39.7211°N 46.7997°W |
| Elevation M: | 1302 |
Sighnag (Azerbaijani: Sığnaq) or Sghnakh (Armenian: Սղնախ) is a village in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had an Armenian majority in 1989.[2]
During the Soviet period, the village was a part of the Askeran District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. After the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village was administrated as part of the Askeran Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. The village was captured by Azerbaijan on 9 November 2020 during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.[3]
In early July 2021, satellite images released by Caucasus Heritage Watch, a watchdog group made up of researchers from Purdue and Cornell, revealed that an Armenian cemetery dating back to the eighteenth century was bulldozed in order to make way for a new road. This makes it the "second historic cemetery destroyed along the new Fuzuli-Shusha road, after Mets T’agher/Böyük Tağlar."[4]
Historical heritage sites in and around the village include the 19th-century church of Surb Astvatsatsin (Armenian: Սուրբ Աստվածածին,), a 19th-century cemetery, and a spring monument built in 1949.[1]
The village had 251 inhabitants in 2005,[5] and 292 inhabitants in 2015.[1]