Ghukasavan
Ghukasavan is a village in the Masis Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia.
Ghukasavan is a village in the Masis Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia. It was renamed in 1949 in honor of Ghukas Ghukasian, founder of the Armenian Communist Youth Movement.
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Worth seeing in and around Ghukasavan
2 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.
- 01Argavand 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.
3.8 km · cultural heritage monument of Armenia · Wikipedia - 02Civil 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.
3.4 km · Armenian museum · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ghukasavan
- Airports
- Zvartnots (EVN), 3 km · Shirak (LWN), 84 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 137 km
- Stations
- Zvartnots International Airport, 3 km
- Gyumri → Ghukasavan89 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · $10–14
- Nakhchivan → GhukasavanTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Ganja → Ghukasavan176 km · quickest by road, 9h 17m · $38–50
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ghukasavan
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 Ghukasavan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Ghukasavan – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Ghukasavan
Ghukasavan is 10 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.