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Darakert

Darakert is a village in the Masis Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia.The village had 2,723 inhabitants in 2011.

Darakert
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Darakert is a village in the Masis Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia.The village had 2,723 inhabitants in 2011.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Darakert

Airports
Zvartnots (EVN), 5 km · Shirak (LWN), 86 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 136 km
  • Gyumri → Darakert
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · $10–14
  • Nakhchivan → Darakert
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Ganja → Darakert
    177 km · quickest by road, 9h 15m · $38–50
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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.

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No local-transport research exists yet for Darakert

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 Darakert. 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
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    87 km
  2. 02
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    90 km
  3. 03
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    171 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    210 km
  5. 05
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    263 km

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

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Darakert is 12 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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