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Azatashen

Azatashen is a village in the Masis Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia.

Azatashen
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The place

Azatashen is a village in the Masis Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Azatashen

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
    Teishebaini

    Teishebaini referring more to the hill that the fortress is located upon) was the capital of the Transcaucasian provinces of the ancient kingdom of Urartu. It is located near the modern city of Yerevan in Armenia.

    3.7 km · archaeological site in Armenia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Karmir Blur

    Teishebaini referring more to the hill that the fortress is located upon) was the capital of the Transcaucasian provinces of the ancient kingdom of Urartu. It is located near the modern city of Yerevan in Armenia.

    3.7 km · cultural heritage monument of Armenia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Argavand Funerary Tower

    The Mausoleum of Kara Koyunlu emirs is a 15th-century mausoleum located in the village of Argavand, Ararat Province, on the outskirts of the Armenian capital Yerevan. It was erected in 1413 by a local ruler, Pir Husayn, most likely over the grave of his father Saad, during the rule of the Qara Qoyunlu, a Turkoman dynasty which ruled over Armenia, most of Iran, and other lands in the 15th century.

    3.2 km · cultural heritage monument of Armenia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Civil Aviation Museum

    The Civil Aviation Museum of Armenia was founded in 1998, on the 65th anniversary of civil aviation in Armenia. Located in Zvartnots, Armenia, the museum contains documents, collections, photographs, books and other valuable items that reflect the history of civil aviation.

    2.4 km · Armenian museum · 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 Azatashen

Airports
Zvartnots (EVN), 2 km · Shirak (LWN), 83 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 138 km
Stations
Zvartnots International Airport, 2.1 km
  • Gyumri → Azatashen
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · $10–14
  • Nakhchivan → Azatashen
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Ganja → Azatashen
    175 km · quickest by road, 9h 22m · $26–36
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Azatashen

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMarshrutkas (aka minibus aka converted delivery van) are the chief mode of transport within Armenia and internationally.
  • 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 inTbilisi, Georgia – Some five or six marshrutkas run daily, taking 5-6 hr (via Vanadzor & Debed Canyon) and costing 6,500 dram or 35 lari.
  • Get aroundYerevan operates 8- and 12-meter buses, as well as minibuses, better known as marshrutkas.
  • Get aroundMore than a hundred marshrutkas still routes criss-cross the city and travel to the suburbs and beyond (such as to Georgia).

From Wikivoyage: Yerevan, 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
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    87 km
  2. 02
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    89 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

    207 km
  5. 05
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    262 km

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

Around it

Next door to Azatashen

Azatashen is 10 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Darakertvillage in Ararat Province of Armenia3.9 km
  • Hayanistvillage in Ararat Province of Armenia3.6 km
  • Argavandvillage in Ararat Province of Armenia3.3 km
  • Norabatsvillage in Ararat Province of Armenia3.5 km
  • Geghanistvillage in Ararat Province of Armenia2.3 km
  • Parakarvillage in Armavir Province of Armenia3.3 km