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 A: Yes, they did. They could do that in Gremiha since there was a big collective farm in Varzino and the Iskra kolkhoz in Yokanga. They supplied the boarding school with meat .175 Illustration 12: Sami children born in 1953-54 (6th grade) at Gremiha boarding school. Nina Afanas'eva is at the back to the right (Nina Afanas'eva - private archive). Sometimes boarding school pupils were able to travel to a boarding school summer camp on the Black Sea. This possibility of free trips to the south, which were also available to adults with many years' service, was consistently appreciated by all my interviewees. Sarv (1996), however, presents this also as a disadvantage: "Beginning in 1957, children were taken south for the summer to the Black Sea, so they had no opportunity to become acquainted with their own language or culture. "176 175Afanas'eva interview, lines 1123-1129. 176Cf.: Sarv 1996, 136. Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 116
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