--- title: "Türkmenabat – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Türkmenabat, Turkmenistan: Türkmenabat, formerly known as Çärjew, is the second-largest city in Turkmenistan and the administrative centre of Lebap…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/turkmenabat" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/turkmenabat.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Wohnblock_in_der_Weststadt.jpg/1920px-Wohnblock_in_der_Weststadt.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Capital of Lebap Province, Turkmenistan # Türkmenabat Türkmenabat, formerly known as Çärjew, is the second-largest city in Turkmenistan and the administrative centre of Lebap Province. ![Türkmenabat](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Wohnblock_in_der_Weststadt.jpg/1920px-Wohnblock_in_der_Weststadt.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Türkmenabat · Bohndorf Film-Team The place Türkmenabat, formerly known as Çärjew, is the second-largest city in Turkmenistan and the administrative centre of Lebap Province. As of 2022, it had a population of approximately 231,000 people. From 1924 to 1927, it was given the name Leninsk in honour of Vladimir Lenin. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BCrkmenabat), CC BY-SA 4.0. See ## What Wikivoyage says to see Lebap Regional Museum, Shaidakov köcesi 35. Mon-Sat 09:00-13:00, 14:00-18:00. It has an ethnographic section with a yurt and a diorama of a silversmith workshop. US$0.20. Russian Orthodox Church, Magtymguly sayoli. Amul' Settlement (10 km from the city center). From [Wikivoyage: Türkmenabat](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/T%C3%BCrkmenabat), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Eat ## Where to eat Restaurant Lebap, Puskin köcesi,. 09:00-23:00. US$2. Restaurant Vostok, Shaidakov köcesi. US$1. Restaurant Traktir, Arsarybaba köcesi 14,. 11:00-23:00. US$2. From [Wikivoyage: Türkmenabat](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/T%C3%BCrkmenabat), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Go there ## Getting to Türkmenabat **Airports:** Türkmenabat (CRZ), 17 km · Bukhara (BHK), 110 km\ **Stations:** Turkmenabat Airport, 4 km\ - Daşoguz → Türkmenabat 433 km · quickest by road, 9h 22m · $43–60 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dasoguz-to-turkmenabat) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Da%C5%9Foguz&to=T%C3%BCrkmenabat) - Ashgabat → Türkmenabat 469 km · quickest by road, 7h 4m · $50–70 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/ashgabat-to-turkmenabat) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ashgabat&to=T%C3%BCrkmenabat) - Bukhara → Türkmenabat 107 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · $11–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bukhara-to-turkmenabat) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bukhara&to=T%C3%BCrkmenabat) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=T%C3%BCrkmenabat) 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 Türkmenabat 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 Türkmenabat. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in Take a taxi from Bukhara to the border (US$8) at Farab or a shared taxi to Uzbek Olot (Qarakul) and then a taxi to the border. - Get in A taxi should cost about US$5 and a seat in a shared taxi less than US$1. From [Wikivoyage: Türkmenabat](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/T%C3%BCrkmenabat), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Panjakent and the Fann Mountains](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/panjakent) TJ 11 ways of moving, 16 sources 351 km 2. [Khujand](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/khujand) TJ 9 ways of moving, 27 sources 535 km 3. [Karimabad (Hunza)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hunza) PK 9 ways of moving, 35 sources 1,022 km 4. [Karakol and the Issyk-Kul east shore](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/karakol) KG 12 ways of moving, 20 sources 1,303 km 5. [Leh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/leh) IN 8 ways of moving, 25 sources 1,363 km If you know how people move in Türkmenabat – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cturkmenabat&title=T%C3%BCrkmenabat&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fturkmenabat), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Türkmenabat - [Çärjew District](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/carjew-district) district in Lebap Province, Turkmenistan 1.7 km [The place page for Türkmenabat](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/turkmenabat) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Turkmenistan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-TM) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/turkmenabat, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt