Fioletovo ( hy, Ֆիոլետովո) is a village in the Lori Province of

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Toponymy

The village was known as ''Nikitino'' until 1936, when it was renamed ''Fioletovo'' in honour of the

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

Communist activist and one of the

26 Baku Commissars The 26 Baku Commissars were Bolshevik and Left Socialist Revolutionary (SR) members of the Baku Commune. The commune was established in the city of Baku, which was then the capital of the briefly independent Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, and ...

Ivan Fioletov Ivan Timofeevich Fioletov (Russian: Иван Тимофеевич Фиолетов; 1884 – 20 September 1918) was a Russian revolutionary activist and one of the Bolshevik Party leaders in Azerbaijan during the Russian Revolution. Biography F ...

History

In the 1840s the village was settled by

Spiritual Christians Spiritual Christianity (russian: духовное христианство) is the group of belief systems held by so-called ''folk Protestants'' (), including non-Eastern Orthodox indigenous faith tribes and new religious movements that emerge ...

relocated from Russia. In the present-day, the village is inhabited by three congregations of ''Dukh-i-zhizniki'' and one congregation of '' Molokane''. The population of the village is diminishing year by year as the emigration is growing among its residents, who are trying to look for better economical conditions, either in Armenia or abroad.

Climate

The village has an extremely cold winter with a cool and mild summer. It lies under a thick layer of snow during the long winter season, where only the roofs of houses could be seen from the top with their smoking chimneys.

Gallery

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References

External links

Populated places in Lori Province Erivan Governorate {{Lori-geo-stub