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Mayisyan

Mayisyan is a village in the Akhuryan Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia.

Mayisyan
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The place

Mayisyan is a village in the Akhuryan Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mayisyan

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
    Shirak State University named after Mikayel Nalbandian

    Shirak State University, also known as Shirak State University named after Mikayel Nalbandian is a public university in Gyumri, the capital of Shirak Province, Armenia, opened in 1934.

    2.6 km · university in 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 Mayisyan

Airports
Shirak (LWN), 12 km · Zvartnots (EVN), 92 km · Tbilisi (TBS), 131 km
  • Yerevan → Mayisyan
    36 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · $3–4.5
  • Tbilisi → Mayisyan
    125 km · quickest by road, 3h 39m · ₾20–26
  • Kopitnari → Mayisyan
    264 km · quickest by road, 8h 30m · ₾44–60
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mayisyan

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inShared taxis depart from the same location and are usually faster and more comfortable.
  • Get inTbilisi – Marshrutkas leave daily at 10:30 from the Ortachala bus terminal in Tbilisi.
  • Get inThe marshrutka drives through the centre of Gyumri, so you can get off either in the centre of town or at the Gyumri bus terminal.
  • Get inThe city used to be called Leninakan and this may be the name displayed in the marshrutka windscreen.
  • Get aroundIf you care to try to figure out the numbers of the local van routes (marshrutka), you can have quite an adventure.

From Wikivoyage: Gyumri, 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

    7 km
  2. 02
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    74 km
  3. 03
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    128 km
  4. 04
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    176 km
  5. 05
    KutaisiGE

    9 ways of moving, 40 sources

    182 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mayisyan

  • Hovunivillage in Shirak Province of Armenia2.9 km
  • Ketivillage in Shirak Province of Armenia3.8 km
  • Hatsikavanvillage in Shirak Province of Armenia2.7 km