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Kakavadzor

Kakavadzor is a village in the Kotayk Province of Armenia.

Kakavadzor
Kakavadzor · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kakavadzor is a village in the Kotayk Province of Armenia. There are the ruins of S. Astvatsatsin, the chapel of Verin Vank located north of the village, and a chapel in the cemetery (northwest) upon the hill. According to locals, there are supposedly other churches nearby, and possibly a monastery in the gorge northwest of the village.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Kakavadzor

Airports
Zvartnots (EVN), 57 km · Shirak (LWN), 78 km · Tbilisi (TBS), 122 km
  • Yerevan → Kakavadzor
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · $4.5–6
  • Gyumri → Kakavadzor
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · $6–8
  • Tbilisi → Kakavadzor
    162 km · quickest by road, 5h 9m · ₾28–38
  • From anywhere
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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 Kakavadzor

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inOptions to get out to each of these regions is day trips/tours, renting a car, taking a taxi, or public transportation.
  • Get inGyumri, Vanadzor and Dilijan are all no more than 1½-2 hours from Yerevan, and a day trip is easy.
  • Get inIf you want to go beyond these cities though, it can become harder to fit it all into a day trip, and looking into spending the night becomes worthwhile.

From Wikivoyage: Northern Armenia, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    80 km
  2. 02
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    104 km
  3. 03
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    152 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    165 km
  5. 05
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    215 km

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

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Kakavadzor is 50 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.