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# Türkmenabat

Türkmenabat, formerly known as Çärjew, is the second-largest city in Turkmenistan and the administrative centre of Lebap Province.

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## Every way there

- 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)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Türkmenabat, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Türkmenabat has

- Y Scheduled flights Türkmenabat (CRZ), 17 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Bukhara, 107 km.

39.083°, 63.567°

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.

Get in

## Getting to Türkmenabat

Turkmenistan Airways operate 4 daily flights from Ashgabat (US$12). The airport is 2 km east of the city center. Turkmenistan Railways run trains to Turkmenabat from Ashgabat (2 trains per day, 16 hours, US$2.50), Mary/Merv (3 trains per day leaving Mary at 22:00, 01:20, 03:30, 7 hours, US$1) and Turkmenbashi (1 train per day, 23 hours, US$2.50). The railway station is in the city center.

See

## Worth seeing

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).

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.

How locals move

## Getting around Türkmenabat the local way

- 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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BCrkmenabat) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/T%C3%BCrkmenabat), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Bohndorf Film-Team (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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