Village in Shirak, Armenia
Illi
Illi is a town in the Shirak Province of Armenia.
How locals move
Getting around Illi 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: Dietmar Rabich (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.