Allemann, L. The sami of the Kola Peninsula : about the life of an ethnic minority in the Soviet Union / Lukas Allemann ; [transl. by Michael Lomax]. - Rovaniemi : University of Lapland Printing Centre, 2013. - 151 p. : ill., map, portr. ; 25 см. - (Senter for samiske studier, Skriftserie ; 19).

Lukas Allemann This is shown by the interviews in the monograph by Vladimirova (2006) on the sta­ tus of reindeer herding today .149 Particularly praised in comparison to today are the facts that the herdsmen were well-paid government employees with numerous al­ lowances for harsh working conditions, that a network of overnight huts was built in the tundra, that the supply system worked perfectly thanks to airplanes, helicopters, vezdehody and snowmobiles, regardless of operating costs, and that there was a well- functioning system of veterinary care. Illustration 10: Sami reindeer herders in the tundra, 1960s. In the background were see sleighs of a model taken over from the Komi (Nina Afanas'eva - private archive). With the concentration of reindeer herding in Lovozero came also the conversion of the two kolkhozy (collective farms) into sovkhozy (state farms). Social anthropolo­ gists Konstantinov and Vladimirova show convincingly that, for those working in them, there was practically no difference in practice between these two operating formats, and that in everyday speech both forms were and are used synonymously, except in order to mark a timing difference (kolkhoz up to 1971, sovkhoz after 149Cf.: Vladimirova 2006, 220-222. Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 Г(«)П^^И1 92