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Artashar

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Artashar

3 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
    Quba Mere Diwane

    Yazidi Temple

    3.7 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Metsamor site

    Remains of an old fortress located to the southwest of the Armenian village of Taronik, in the Armavir Province.

    1.7 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Lake Akna

    Lake in Armenia

    3.9 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 Artashar

Airports
Zvartnots (EVN), 19 km · Shirak (LWN), 76 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 150 km
  • Gyumri → Artashar
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · $9–12
  • Nakhchivan → Artashar
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Tbilisi → Artashar
    184 km · quickest by road, 5h 53m · ₾31–42
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Artashar

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 Artashar. 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

    81 km
  2. 02
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    105 km
  3. 03
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    160 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    208 km
  5. 05
    KutaisiGE

    9 ways of moving, 40 sources

    268 km

If you know how people move in Artashar – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Artashar

Artashar is 29 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Yeghegnutvillage in Armavir Province of Armenia2.9 km
  • Taronikvillage in Armavir Province of Armenia2.8 km
  • Zartonkvillage in Armavir Province of Armenia1.9 km