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Nor Hachn

Nor Hachn is a town and urban municipal community in the Kotayk Province of Armenia, founded in 1953.

Nor Hachn
Nor Hachn · HGphotography
The place

Nor Hachn is a town and urban municipal community in the Kotayk Province of Armenia, founded in 1953. The town is located on the right bank of Hrazdan River, to the west of the Arzni canyon, on the immediate proximity of the Arzni-Shamiram canal.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nor Hachn

4 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
    Abovyan City Stadium

    Vahagn Tumasyan Stadium is an all-seater football stadium in Abovyan, Armenia.

    5.8 km · soccer stadium in Armenia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ptghnavank

    Ptghnavank or Ptghni church is located in the village of Ptghni in the Kotayk Province of Armenia.

    5 km · cultural heritage monument of Armenia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Saint John the Baptist Church

    Saint John the Baptist Church is a monumental Armenian Apostolic church in the town of Abovyan, Kotayk Province, Armenia.

    5 km · church building in Abovyan, Armenia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Armenak 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.

    0 m · Armenia air force university · 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 Nor Hachn

Airports
Zvartnots (EVN), 23 km · Shirak (LWN), 79 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 145 km
Stations
Arzni Airport, 1.7 km
  • Gyumri → Nor Hachn
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · $10–14
  • Nakhchivan → Nor Hachn
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Ganja → Nor Hachn
    156 km · quickest by road, 8h 47m · $24–33
  • From anywhere
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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 Nor Hachn

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 Nor Hachn. 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

    88 km
  3. 03
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    162 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    191 km
  5. 05
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    241 km

If you know how people move in Nor Hachn – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Nor Hachn

Nor Hachn is 15 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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