Lermontovo ( hy, Լերմոնտովո); formerly known as ''Voskresenovka'', is a village in the Lori Province of

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ' ...

. Like its neighbor,

Fioletovo Fioletovo ( hy, Ֆիոլետովո) is a village in the Lori Province of Armenia. Toponymy The village was known as ''Nikitino'' until 1936, when it was renamed ''Fioletovo'' in honour of the Russian Communist activist and one of the 26 Baku ...

, it was settled in the mid-1800s 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 ...

from Russia (''Pryguny'', ''Molokane''). The village is named after Russian poet

Mikhail Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (; russian: Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjurʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲɛrməntəf; – ) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucas ...

, often called "the poet of the Caucasus".

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* (as Lermontovo) * Populated places in Lori Province Mikhail Lermontov {{Lori-geo-stub