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Nor Kyurin

Nor Kyurin is a village in the Masis Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia.

Nor Kyurin
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The place

Nor Kyurin is a village in the Masis Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia. Nor Kyurin means New Kyurin, pronounced [gjurin] or [gyrin] in Western Armenian. It was named after the city of Gürün, which had a significant Armenian population until the Armenian genocide.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nor Kyurin

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.

  1. 01
    The St. Thaddeus Church (Masis, Armenia)

    The Saint Thaddeus Church, is an Armenian Apostolic church in the town of Masis, Ararat Province, Armenia.

    3.7 km · church building in Masis, 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.

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Getting to Nor Kyurin

Airports
Zvartnots (EVN), 9 km · Shirak (LWN), 89 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 132 km
  • Gyumri → Nor Kyurin
    97 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · $11–15
  • Nakhchivan → Nor Kyurin
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Ganja → Nor Kyurin
    172 km · quickest by road, 9h 13m · $38–50
  • 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 Nor Kyurin

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMarshrutkas (aka minibus aka converted delivery van) are the chief mode of transport within Armenia and internationally.
  • Get inYou may be denied entry and turned around at the border, which, if you've come by marshrutka/minibus, means that you will be stranded until you are able to find a new bus or hitchhike back to Tbilisi.
  • Get inTbilisi, Georgia – Some five or six marshrutkas run daily, taking 5-6 hr (via Vanadzor & Debed Canyon) and costing 6,500 dram or 35 lari.
  • Get aroundYerevan operates 8- and 12-meter buses, as well as minibuses, better known as marshrutkas.
  • Get aroundMore than a hundred marshrutkas still routes criss-cross the city and travel to the suburbs and beyond (such as to Georgia).

From Wikivoyage: Yerevan, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    83 km
  2. 02
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    94 km
  3. 03
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    175 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    213 km
  5. 05
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    260 km

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

Around it

Next door to Nor Kyurin

Nor Kyurin is 11 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Masis Municipalityurban municipality in Ararat Province, Armenia3.6 km