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 О: Сейчас не знаю. Таких нету, нету. // Q: [...] I can no longer remember when the Sami became Orthodox, but were there not other rites dating back from before Orthodoxy? A: No, we've been Orthodox all along, there's never been any other religion. Q: You mean that shamanism has never been part of your life? A: Yes, there were shamans, they did exist. They lived among the Sami and prac­ ticed their rites. But they left the Orthodox religion in peace. In my childhood, shamans no longer existed. I only heard stories of them from my granny. Q: So, now they no longer exist, do they? A: They don't. There are none left .8 0 In the 1920s and 1930s, priests and shamans alike were declared enemies of the people, churches converted or demolished and, with the introduction of the Soviet educational system, atheism was increasingly propagated .81M ore information can be found in the section Repression and Terror under Stalin (Chapter 5.2). 3.3 Transliteration and written codification of the Sami language The Sami of the Kola Peninsula were largely illiterate right up into the Soviet era. Nevertheless, with the missionary work of the Pecenga monastery, texts were re­ peatedly translated by Russian clergy into Sami and committed to writing. In the six­ teenth century monk Feodorit Kol'skij translated certain prayers into the Sami lan­ guage. In the nineteenth century other religious texts were translated into Sami, without the language, however, being codified in any way. A first attempt in this di­ rection was the Azbuka dlja Loparej, written by a priest named Konstantin Scekoldin. The first school for the Sami of the region was opened in 1888 .82 80Jur'eva interview, lines 55-63. 81 Cf.: Sarv 1996, 133. 82Cf.: Bol'sakova 2005, 170. Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 35