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Place in Kotayk, Armenia

Kanakeravan

Kanakeravan, a village in the Kotayk Province of Armenia, 42 km southwest of the province's center, on the high right bank of the Hrazdan river, blocking KERG.

Kanakeravan
Kanakeravan · Soghomon Matevosyan
The place

Kanakeravan, a village in the Kotayk Province of Armenia, 42 km southwest of the province's center, on the high right bank of the Hrazdan river, blocking KERG.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kanakeravan

3 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.

  1. 01
    Football Academy Stadium (Yerevan)

    The Yerevan Football Academy Stadium, officially the FFA Technical Center-Academy Stadium, commonly known as the Yerevan Football Academy Stadium or the Avan Academy Stadium, is an all-seater football stadium in Yerevan, Armenia. It is located in the northern Avan District of the city, within the Technical Center-Academy complex of the Football Federation of Armenia.

    3.3 km · stadium in Yerevan, Armenia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Saint Hakob Church of Kanaker

    Surp Hakob Church is located in the Kanaker-Zeytun District within the city limits of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. Its sister-church, Surp Astvatsatsin, is located upon a hilltop to the northwest within sight of the Church of S. Hakob.

    3 km · cultural heritage monument of Armenia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God

    The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God of Kanaker, Russian: Храм Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы в Канакер), is an active Russian Orthodox church in the old area of Kanaker, Yerevan, Armenia. Main church of the Diocese of Yerevan and Armenia.

    2.7 km · Russian Orthodox church in Kanaker, Yerevan, Armenia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Kanakeravan

Airports
Zvartnots (EVN), 16 km · Shirak (LWN), 80 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 142 km
  • Gyumri → Kanakeravan
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · $10–13
  • Nakhchivan → Kanakeravan
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Ganja → Kanakeravan
    162 km · quickest by road, 9h 1m · $25–35
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kanakeravan

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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 inThere are marshrutkas from Tbilisi to the border for about 17 lari to Yerevan.
  • Get inAlso, several marshrutkas leave daily from Akhalkalaki into Armenia (Gyumri).
  • Get inMarshrutkas pass through Ninotsminda, so it is possible to jump on there.
  • Get inIn both directions, marshrutka leaves quite early in the morning.

From Wikivoyage: Armenia, 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
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    84 km
  2. 02
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    87 km
  3. 03
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    164 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    196 km
  5. 05
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    247 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kanakeravan

Kanakeravan is 8 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.