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).

The Sami of the Kola Peninsula were no events (wars, natural disasters, etc.) that could have interrupted the transfer of knowledge from one generation and so lead to the destruction of a culture .14 Most likely the Sami received the name 'Lapps' (russ. lopari, lop') from their neighbours. Even if folk etymology interpretations very often have a pejorative tinge to them, linguists connect this ethnonym with the Finnish root lape, lapea ('side') or the Swedish lapp ('place'). Today the auto-ethnonym, 'Sami' (Russian saamy/saami) is preferred both in literature and in everyday use. The designation 'Lapland' (Russian laplandija) as a toponym for the homeland of the Sami is, however, still widely used. 15 1.3.2 Demographics of the Sami The Sami are one of the 26 indigenous peoples, numbering in all 184,000 persons, that inhabit the north of Russia from Lapland to Cukotka (opposite Alaska) (official name: Malocislennye narodnosti Krajnego Severa, Sibiri i Dal'nego Vostoka). Among these, the Sami take a special position in that they are the one people to live on the territory of several sovereign states .16 Depending on the criteria used to define membership of a particular ethnic group, there are significant differences in the estimated number of Sami and the ac­ curacy of the individual accounts. Since in the Nordic countries, in contrast to the Soviet Union, no separation is made between between citizenship (grazdanstvo) and ethnicity (nacional'nost') estimates for these countries exhibit greater disparities than those for the Russian Sami. Figures of between 30,000 and 70,000 are given Sami living in Scandinavia. 17 According to the reference book Narody Rossii (1994), around 30,000 Sami live in Norway, about 17,000 in Sweden, some 4,000 in Finland and in Russia 1,835, of whom 1,615 on the Kola Peninsula .18 The figures for Finland are more accurate than those for Norway and Sweden, and permit an interesting comparison with Russia. In 1984 a total of 11,475 people 14 Cf.: Kiselev/Kiseleva 2000, 15. 15 Cf.: Luk'janCenko 1994, 311. 16 Cf.: Kiselev/Kiseleva 2000, 15. 17 Cf.: Vaba/Viikberg [no date], [no pagination]. 18 Cf.: Luk'janCenko 1994, 310. Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 7