Masis
Masis is a town and administrative centre of the Masis Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia, located on the left bank of the Hrazdan River, 9 km southwest of Yerevan towards Mount Ararat.
Masis is a town and administrative centre of the Masis Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia, located on the left bank of the Hrazdan River, 9 km southwest of Yerevan towards Mount Ararat. The town has a large railroad commodity station that serves Yerevan, and used to connect the capital city with the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic until the closing of the border with Azerbaijan.
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Worth seeing in and around Masis
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.
- 01The St. Thaddeus Church (Masis, Armenia)
The Saint Thaddeus Church, is an Armenian Apostolic church in the town of Masis, Ararat Province, Armenia.
200 m · church building in Masis, Armenia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Masis
- Airports
- Zvartnots (EVN), 10 km · Shirak (LWN), 91 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 131 km
- Gyumri → Masis95 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · $10–14
- Nakhchivan → MasisTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Ganja → Masis177 km · quickest by road, 9h 4m · $37–50
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Masis
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 Masis. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inMarshrutkas (aka minibus aka converted delivery van) are the chief mode of transport within Armenia and internationally.
- 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 inTbilisi, Georgia – Some five or six marshrutkas run daily, taking 5-6 hr (via Vanadzor & Debed Canyon) and costing 6,500 dram or 35 lari.
- Get aroundYerevan operates 8- and 12-meter buses, as well as minibuses, better known as marshrutkas.
- Get aroundMore than a hundred marshrutkas still routes criss-cross the city and travel to the suburbs and beyond (such as to Georgia).
From Wikivoyage: Yerevan, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Masis is 14 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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