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Mkhchyan

Mkhchyan is a village in the Artashat Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia near the Armenia–Turkey border.

Mkhchyan
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The place

Mkhchyan is a village in the Artashat Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia near the Armenia–Turkey border. The town is named after Liparit Mkchyan, a Soviet commander killed in 1921.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Mkhchyan

Airports
Zvartnots (EVN), 16 km · Shirak (LWN), 97 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 124 km
  • Gyumri → Mkhchyan
    102 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · $11–15
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  • Nakhchivan → Mkhchyan
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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  • Ganja → Mkhchyan
    175 km · quickest by road, 8h 59m · $37–50
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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 Mkhchyan

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 Mkhchyan. 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

    77 km
  2. 02
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    101 km
  3. 03
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    182 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    221 km
  5. 05
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    262 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mkhchyan

Mkhchyan is 18 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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