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Taperakan

Taperakan is a village in the Vedi Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia.

Taperakan
Taperakan · Armineaghayan
The place

Taperakan is a village in the Vedi Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia. The village used to be named for Sergey Kirov, an early Bolshevik leader.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Taperakan

Airports
Zvartnots (EVN), 31 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 109 km · Shirak (LWN), 112 km
  • Gyumri → Taperakan
    116 km · quickest by road, 3h 23m · $12–17
  • Nakhchivan → Taperakan
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Ganja → Taperakan
    172 km · quickest by road, 8h 40m · $36–49
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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 Taperakan

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMarshrutkas depart from Yerevan's Southern Bus Station behind the rail station to Artashat regularly throughout the day.
  • Go nextYerevan – Along the highway by Artashat you can catch marshrutkas and shared taxis heading to Yerevan, or even private cars by thumb.

From Wikivoyage: Artashat, 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
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    64 km
  2. 02
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    116 km
  3. 03
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    197 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    233 km
  5. 05
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    260 km

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

Around it

Next door to Taperakan

Taperakan is 30 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Ginevetvillage in Ararat Province of Armenia3.1 km