| Official Name: | Mollanepes adyndaky şäherçe |
| Other Name: | Russian: имени Полторацского, Russian: imeni Poltoratskogo (1975-1993) |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Pushpin Map: | Turkmenistan |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Turkmenistan |
| Coordinates: | 37.6047°N 61.9242°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Turkmenistan |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name1: | Mary Province |
| Subdivision Name2: | Wekilbazar District |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Utc Offset: | +5 |
Mollanepes is a town and capital of Wekilbazar District, Mary Province, Turkmenistan.[1] It is located approximately 10 kilometers east of the city of Mary.
The official name is "Town named for Mollanepes". The town was renamed by decree in 1993 in honor of a prominent 19th-century Turkmen writer, Kadyrberdy Ogly Mollanepes. Prior to that it was named in honor of Pavel Poltoratskiy, a Russian revolutionary.
Mollanepes is served by the M37 highway, a rail station on the Trans-Caspian Railway, the Karakum Canal, and the Mary International Airport.