Nerkin Sasnashen

40°21′23″N 43°59′31″E

Nerkin Sasnashen Ներքին Սասնաշեն
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Coordinates: 40°21′43″N 43°58′58″E
Country	Armenia
Province	Aragatsotn
Municipality	Talin
Population  (2011)
• Total	904[1]
Time zone	UTC+4
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5

Nerkin Sasnashen (Armenian: Ներքին Սասնաշեն) is a village in the Talin Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. It is home to the ruins of a 7th-century Armenian monastery. The village contains a granite memorial marking the crash site of a United States Air Force C-130 shot down by Soviet MiG-17s on 2 September 1958 with the loss of 17 U.S. personnel.^[2]

Joint US-Armenian memorial to the 1958 C-130 shootdown incident