Translation of the current official name of the settlement means "Saint Nino" in English and it was given to the town in honor of the illuminator of Georgians
St. Nino, in 1991. During the
Ottoman rule, this was a
sanjak of
Çıldır Eyaleti, called
Altunkale, which means "golden castle" in Turkish. Before 1991, the town of Ninotsminda was called
Bogdanovka () - a name going back to the history of the
Doukhobor settlement in the region in the 1840s. After the conquest of
Kars in 1878, some Doukhobors from Bogdanovka moved to the newly created
Kars Oblast. Twenty years later, some of them (or their descendants) emigrated from Kars Oblast to
Canada, where they established a short-lived village named Bogdanovka in
Langham district of
Saskatchewan. Another group of emigrants, coming straight from Georgian Bogdanovka, established another Bogdanovka near
Pelly, Saskatchewan. ==Demographics==