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 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.