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Aknashen

Aknashen is a town in the Armavir Province of Armenia.

The place

Aknashen is a town in the Armavir Province of Armenia. The town's church is dedicated to Saint Bartholomew; nearby is a ruin of an 8th-century building.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Aknashen

Airports
Zvartnots (EVN), 11 km · Shirak (LWN), 82 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 142 km
  • Gyumri → Aknashen
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · $10–13
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  • Nakhchivan → Aknashen
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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  • Tbilisi → Aknashen
    184 km · quickest by road, 5h 42m · ₾30–41
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No local-transport research exists yet for Aknashen

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 Aknashen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMarshrutkas to Echmiadzin (line 203) start from the central (Kilikiya) bus station in Yerevan, at least every 30 mins, more often in busy periods, and take 20-30 mins.
  • Get aroundZvartnots is 5 km east, back towards Yerevan: take a marshrutka (several alternatives to the 203 for this short hop) or taxi.

From Wikivoyage: Echmiadzin, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    86 km
  2. 02
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    96 km
  3. 03
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    167 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    211 km
  5. 05
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    273 km

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Around it

Next door to Aknashen

Aknashen is 21 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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