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Arpeni
Village in Shirak, Armenia

Arpeni

Arpeni is a village in the Ashotsk Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia.

Plan a trip to Arpeni→From Yerevan

Within the village is a 19th-century church. The Statistical Committee of Armenia reported its population was 397 in 2010, up from 373 at the 2001 census.

How locals move

Getting around Arpeni the local way

  • Get inShared taxis depart from the same location and are usually faster and more comfortable.
  • Get inTbilisi – Marshrutkas leave daily at 10:30 from the Ortachala bus terminal in Tbilisi.
  • Get inThe marshrutka drives through the centre of Gyumri, so you can get off either in the centre of town or at the Gyumri bus terminal.
  • Get inThe city used to be called Leninakan and this may be the name displayed in the marshrutka windscreen.
  • Get aroundIf you care to try to figure out the numbers of the local van routes (marshrutka), you can have quite an adventure.
  • Get aroundIt may be hard to make it to some of the fringe sites though in a marshrutka, like the fortress.
  • Go nextIt is a spectacular setting, and the church is very well preserved Marshrutka's to Yerevan and Vanadzor leave regularly from the main bus station.
  • Go nextMarshrutkas leave every morning at 10:00 to Tbilisi.

From Wikivoyage: Gyumri, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Hayordi. Այս լուսանկարի հեղինակը Հայորդին է (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.