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Abovyan

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Abovyan

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Abovyan City Stadium

    Soccer stadium in Armenia

    400 m · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ptghnavank

    Cultural heritage monument of Armenia

    4.4 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Saint John the Baptist Church

    Church building in Abovyan, Armenia

    500 m · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Armenak Khanperyants Military Aviation University

    Armenia air force university

    5.4 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Abovyan

Airports
Zvartnots (EVN), 24 km · Shirak (LWN), 84 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 140 km
Stations
Arzni Airport, 5.9 km
  • Gyumri → Abovyan
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · $10–14
    GuideToday
  • Nakhchivan → Abovyan
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
    GuideToday
  • Ganja → Abovyan
    153 km · quickest by road, 8h 46m · $24–33
    GuideToday
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Abovyan

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Abovyan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inYou may be denied entry and turned around at the border, which, if you've come by marshrutka/minibus, means that you will be stranded until you are able to find a new bus or hitchhike back to Tbilisi.
  • Get inThere are marshrutkas from Tbilisi to the border for about 17 lari to Yerevan.
  • Get inAlso, several marshrutkas leave daily from Akhalkalaki into Armenia (Gyumri).
  • Get inMarshrutkas pass through Ninotsminda, so it is possible to jump on there.
  • Get inIn both directions, marshrutka leaves quite early in the morning.

From Wikivoyage: Armenia, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    82 km
  2. 02
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    88 km
  3. 03
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    168 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    195 km
  5. 05
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    238 km

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Around it

Next door to Abovyan

Abovyan is 15 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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