When they arrived in Los Angeles, they were befriended by local settlement house director Dana W. Bartlett.
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The Molokan town of Fioletovo, situated in the North of Armenia, is named after him as is the Fioletovo Commuter Train Station in Baku.
Maxim Gavrilovich Rudometkin (c. 1818 – 1877) was a religious leader of a mid 19th century religious sect called the Molokan Jumpers, he lived primarily in a little village of the Lori Province called Fioletovo (previously called Nikitino) in the modern country of Armenia.
The first mass-immigration of Russians into Armenia occurred in the late 18th century when Molokans, a break-off sect of the Russian Orthodox Church, were deported to Amasya and Sevan, with some 5000 of their descendants still living in the nation.