Mrgashen
Mrgashen is a village in the Kotayk Province of Armenia.
Mrgashen is a village in the Kotayk Province of Armenia. It is located along the left bank of the Arzni-Shamiram aqueduct. Mrgashen was officially founded in March 1960 around the state-owned collective farm, or Sovkhoz No. 6. The local economy is highly dependent on agriculture, based primarily on orchard cultivation and pig or cattle breeding. The community currently has a school, kindergarten, house of culture, medical station, and a library. Sixty percent of households receive natural gas, and drinking water for the village comes from the Arzakan-Yerevan network, while water for irrigation comes from the Arzni-Shamiram aqueduct.
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Worth seeing in and around Mrgashen
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.
- 01Armenak Khanperyants Military Aviation University
The Armenak Khanperyants Military Aviation University was a higher educational institution of the Armenian Air Force functioning under the Ministry of Defense of Armenia. Its mission was to prepare and train officers capable of implementing defense tasks in peace and war.
3.9 km · Armenia air force university · Wikipedia
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Getting to Mrgashen
- Airports
- Zvartnots (EVN), 19 km · Shirak (LWN), 78 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 145 km
- Stations
- Arzni Airport, 2.4 km
- Gyumri → Mrgashen82 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · $10–14
- Nakhchivan → MrgashenTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Tbilisi → Mrgashen158 km · quickest by road, 5h 28m · ₾29–39
- 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 Mrgashen
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 Mrgashen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Mrgashen is 12 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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