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 Illustration 11: Classroom for teaching Sami at the Lovozero boarding school in 1998 (Nina Afanas'eva - private archive). Despite the resurgence of ethnic consciousness, the younger generation must come to terms with feeling themselves to be Sami without mastering the Sami language, or learning this effectively as a foreign language with only a few lessons a week. Unfor­ tunately, there are no surveys on how many of the young inhabitants of the Kola Peninsula today feel themselves to be Sami or Russians. One finds in the literature many different views as to whether an independent Sami culture and ethnicity would be able to survive if the Sami language were to disappear entirely. This uncer­ tainty can not ultimately be eliminated by the words cited at the beginning of this section. 5.4.4.2 Boarding school A special feature of the Soviet - and also contemporary Russian - educational system are the boarding schools for children of parents who are engaged in reindeer herd­ ing or live in very remote locations. As in the other sub-polar regions of the country, several of these boarding schools were established on the Kola Peninsula. Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 [М3 114