Ptghunk
Ptghunk is a village in the Armenian province of Armavir.
Ptghunk is a village in the Armenian province of Armavir. The village is about 10 miles from Yerevan on the road to Komitas, and is close to the Zvartnots airport. According to the 2011 census, the population of Ptghunk is 1,795.
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Worth seeing in and around Ptghunk
3 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.
- 01Zvartnots Cathedral
Zvartnots Cathedral; Զվարթնոց, sometimes rendered in scholarly works as Zuart'nots' or Zuart'noc'; lit. 'place of resurrection/lifefulness/joyfulness') is a medieval Armenian cathedral near Vagharshapat, Armenia.
2.4 km · cathedral in Armenia · Wikipedia - 02Civil Aviation Museum
The Civil Aviation Museum of Armenia was founded in 1998, on the 65th anniversary of civil aviation in Armenia. Located in Zvartnots, Armenia, the museum contains documents, collections, photographs, books and other valuable items that reflect the history of civil aviation.
3.2 km · Armenian museum · Wikipedia - 03Musa Dagh Memorial
Musaler, previously known as Ginevet, is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia. The village was renamed in 1972 after Musa Ler, the site of Armenian resistance in 1915.
1 km · cultural heritage monument of Armenia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ptghunk
- Airports
- Zvartnots (EVN), 3 km · Shirak (LWN), 78 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 143 km
- Stations
- Zvartnots International Airport, 3.3 km
- Gyumri → Ptghunk83 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · $9–13
- Nakhchivan → PtghunkTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Tbilisi → Ptghunk174 km · quickest by road, 5h 42m · ₾30–40
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ptghunk
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 Ptghunk. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inMarshrutkas to Echmiadzin (line 203) start from the central (Kilikiya) bus station in Yerevan, at least every 30 mins, more often in busy periods, and take 20-30 mins.
- Get aroundZvartnots is 5 km east, back towards Yerevan: take a marshrutka (several alternatives to the 203 for this short hop) or taxi.
From Wikivoyage: Echmiadzin, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.
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Ptghunk is 13 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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