Aygek
Aygek is a village and a rural community in the Armavir Province of Armenia.
Aygek is a village and a rural community in the Armavir Province of Armenia. It is located 8 km west of the capital Yerevan and 36 km east of the provincial centre Armavir. It has an elevation of 870 metres above sea level. The majority of the village are Armenian migrants from Iran.
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Worth seeing in and around Aygek
One place 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.
- 01Musa Dagh Memorial
Musaler, previously known as Ginevet, is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia. The village was renamed in 1972 after Musa Ler, the site of Armenian resistance in 1915.
2.2 km · cultural heritage monument of Armenia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Aygek
- Airports
- Zvartnots (EVN), 5 km · Shirak (LWN), 77 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 144 km
- Gyumri → Aygek81 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · $9–13
- Nakhchivan → AygekTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Tbilisi → Aygek171 km · quickest by road, 5h 39m · ₾30–40
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No local-transport research exists yet for Aygek
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 Aygek. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Aygek is 11 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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