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Merdzavan

Merdzavan, is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia, located at the western suburbs of the capital Yerevan, north of the Parakar village.

The place

Merdzavan, is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia, located at the western suburbs of the capital Yerevan, north of the Parakar village.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Merdzavan

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
    Holy Trinity Church

    Holy Trinity Church is an Armenian Apostolic Church constructed in 2003 in the Malatia-Sebastia District of Yerevan, Armenia. It is modeled after the 7th century Zvartnots Cathedral.

    3.7 km · church building in Yerevan, Armenia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Civil Aviation Museum

    The Civil Aviation Museum of Armenia was founded in 1998, on the 65th anniversary of civil aviation in Armenia. Located in Zvartnots, Armenia, the museum contains documents, collections, photographs, books and other valuable items that reflect the history of civil aviation.

    3 km · Armenian museum · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Musa Dagh Memorial

    Musaler, previously known as Ginevet, is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia. The village was renamed in 1972 after Musa Ler, the site of Armenian resistance in 1915.

    2.5 km · cultural heritage monument of 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.

Go there

Getting to Merdzavan

Airports
Zvartnots (EVN), 3 km · Shirak (LWN), 78 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 143 km
Stations
Zvartnots International Airport, 3.6 km
  • Gyumri → Merdzavan
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · $10–13
  • Nakhchivan → Merdzavan
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Tbilisi → Merdzavan
    172 km · quickest by road, 5h 38m · ₾30–39
  • 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 Merdzavan

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundDay trips can get you anywhere quite easily.
  • Get aroundMany regular marshrutkas head into the region from Yerevan's several bus stations, and between larger towns and cities.
  • Get aroundAlways offer a little tip in return—the equivalent of a marshrutka ride is common.
  • Get aroundThere are plentiful cheap, guided day tours offered by tour agencies all over Yerevan to place like Khor Virap, Garni/Geghard and Echmiadzin/Zvartnots.

From Wikivoyage: Central Armenia, 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
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    82 km
  2. 02
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    92 km
  3. 03
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    163 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    202 km
  5. 05
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    261 km

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

Around it

Next door to Merdzavan

Merdzavan is 10 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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