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Jrarat

Jrarat formerly known as Gharkhun or Verin Gharkhun, is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia.

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Jrarat formerly known as Gharkhun or Verin Gharkhun, is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia. It has a large poultry industry and nearby is a piece of land reserved for the cochineal dye beetles, Porphyrophora hamelii.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Jrarat

Airports
Zvartnots (EVN), 14 km · Shirak (LWN), 83 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 142 km
  • Gyumri → Jrarat
    16 km · quickest by road, 42 min · $1.5–2
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  • Nakhchivan → Jrarat
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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  • Tbilisi → Jrarat
    126 km · quickest by road, 4h 16m · ₾23–30
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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 Jrarat

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    97 km
  3. 03
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    167 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    213 km
  5. 05
    KutaisiGE

    9 ways of moving, 40 sources

    275 km

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Around it

Next door to Jrarat

Jrarat is 24 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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