Gypjak
Gypjak is a former village that was annexed into the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat in 2013.
Gypjak is a former village that was annexed into the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat in 2013. It is now a neighborhood in Bagtyýarlyk Borough of Ashgabat.
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Worth seeing in and around Gypjak
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.
- 01Türkmenbaşy Mosque
Türkmenbaşy Ruhy Mosque, or Gypjak Mosque, is a mosque in Gypjak, Turkmenistan, and the resting place for Saparmurat Niyazov, the leader of Turkmenistan from 1985 to 2006. The mosque is located about 7 kilometres west of the capital, Ashgabat, on the M37 highway.
2 km · mosque and mausoleum in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan · Wikipedia
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Getting to Gypjak
- Airports
- Ashgabat (ASB), 10 km · Mashhad (MHD), 232 km
- Daşoguz → Gypjak448 km · quickest by air, 4h 31m · $170–250
- Türkmenabat → Gypjak477 km · quickest by air, 4h 33m · $170–260
- Mashhad → Gypjak226 km · quickest by road, 5h 20m · $23–32
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No local-transport research exists yet for Gypjak
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 Gypjak. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBuses, marshrutkas and taxis depart from the western side of Teke Bazaar in Ashgabat.
- Get inThe ride in a minibus to Old Nisa costs US$0.20.
From Wikivoyage: Nissa, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.
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Next door to Gypjak
Gypjak is 13 km from Ashgabat, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.