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Marmarashen

Marmarashen, known until 1967 as Aghamzalu, is a village in the Masis Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia.

Marmarashen
Marmarashen · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Marmarashen, known until 1967 as Aghamzalu, is a village in the Masis Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Marmarashen

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.

  1. 01
    The St. Thaddeus Church (Masis, Armenia)

    The Saint Thaddeus Church, is an Armenian Apostolic church in the town of Masis, Ararat Province, Armenia.

    2.5 km · church building in Masis, 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 Marmarashen

Airports
Zvartnots (EVN), 12 km · Shirak (LWN), 93 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 128 km
  • Gyumri → Marmarashen
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · $10–14
  • Nakhchivan → Marmarashen
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Ganja → Marmarashen
    174 km · quickest by road, 9h 3m · $37–50
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Marmarashen

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMarshrutkas depart from Yerevan's Southern Bus Station behind the rail station to Artashat regularly throughout the day.
  • Go nextYerevan – Along the highway by Artashat you can catch marshrutkas and shared taxis heading to Yerevan, or even private cars by thumb.

From Wikivoyage: Artashat, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    80 km
  2. 02
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    97 km
  3. 03
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    178 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    216 km
  5. 05
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    262 km

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

Around it

Next door to Marmarashen

Marmarashen is 14 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Jrashenvillage in Ararat Province of Armenia3.6 km
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