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Nerkin Sasnashen

Nerkin Sasnashen is a village in the Talin Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia.

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Nerkin Sasnashen is a village in the Talin Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. It is home to the ruins of a 7th-century Armenian monastery. The village contains a granite memorial marking the crash site of a United States Air Force C-130 shot down by Soviet MiG-17s on 2 September 1958 with the loss of 17 U.S. personnel.

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Getting to Nerkin Sasnashen

Airports
Zvartnots (EVN), 41 km · Shirak (LWN), 45 km · Tbilisi (TBS), 167 km
  • Yerevan → Nerkin Sasnashen
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · $5–7
  • Gyumri → Nerkin Sasnashen
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · $6–8
  • Tbilisi → Nerkin Sasnashen
    164 km · quickest by road, 5h 4m · ₾28–37
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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 Nerkin Sasnashen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    50 km
  2. 02
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    129 km
  3. 03
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    132 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    181 km
  5. 05
    KutaisiGE

    9 ways of moving, 40 sources

    237 km

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Nerkin Sasnashen is 48 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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