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Village in Aragatsotn, Armenia

Oshakan

Oshakan is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia located 3 kilometers southwest from Ashtarak.

Oshakan
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The place

Oshakan is a village in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia located 3 kilometers southwest from Ashtarak. It is well known to historians and pilgrims of the Armenian Apostolic Church as the site of the grave of Mesrop Mashtots, the inventor of the Armenian alphabet.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Oshakan

Airports
Zvartnots (EVN), 15 km · Shirak (LWN), 66 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 154 km
  • Gyumri → Oshakan
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · $8–11
  • Nakhchivan → Oshakan
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Tbilisi → Oshakan
    165 km · quickest by road, 5h 18m · ₾28–37
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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 Oshakan

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom specific destinations: Yerevan – There are minibuses #502, #503 departing from Yerevan's Kilikia Bus Station.

From Wikivoyage: Ashtarak, 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

    71 km
  2. 02
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    103 km
  3. 03
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    152 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    192 km
  5. 05
    KutaisiGE

    9 ways of moving, 40 sources

    259 km

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

Around it

Next door to Oshakan

Oshakan is 19 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.