Fioletovo

Coordinates: 40°43′29″N 44°42′50″E / 40.72472°N 44.71389°E / 40.72472; 44.71389

Fioletovo
Fioletovo
Coordinates: 40°43′29″N 44°42′50″E / 40.72472°N 44.71389°E / 40.72472; 44.71389
Country	Armenia
Marz (Province)	Lori Province
Population (2008)
– Total	1,373
Time zone	(UTC+4)
– Summer (DST)	(UTC+5)

Fioletovo (until 1936, Nikitino) is a village in the Lori Province of Armenia. The settlement was renamed in 1936 to honor Ivan Fioletov, a socialist activist shot along with the Baku Commissars^[1].

This beautiful village has a majority of Molokans, a Christian sect who evolved from Spiritual Christian Russian peasants that refused to obey the Russian Orthodox Church, in the beginning of the 17th century. Few memebrs of the sect settled in Armenia during the 19th century.

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. The population of the village is diminishing year by year as the immigration is growing among its residents, who are trying to look for better economical conditions, either in Armenia or abroad.

Gallery

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  Fioletovo

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  A Molokan villager in Fioletovo

References

1. ^ Kiesling, Rediscoving Armenia, p. 67, available online at the US embassy to Armenia's website

• Fioletovo at GEOnet Names Server
• World Gazeteer: Armenia – World-Gazetteer.com
• Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census, National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia