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 al heritage of the Sami. In the Nordic countries the Sami today undertake extensive reindeer herding. This must be seen as an inevitable result of the global trend to in­ crease productivity in all areas over the last century and a half. But the fact remains that the Sami even today see the Komi as uninvited hosts and the relationship is somewhat strained. 96 While the migration of Komi and Nenets was still numerically relatively limited, with the foundation of the city of Murmansk in 1916 and the construction of the rail­ way from St. Petersburg the flow of newcomers began to grow to an unprecedented rate. The railroad represented the first borderline traversing the peninsula and in this way the first major obstacle to reindeer herding. Some communities had to move away and abandon grazing land. The construction and operation of the railway line also created new jobs and thus brought about the departure of a portion of the Sami from their traditional activities .97 In 1926, just before the beginning of collectivization and thus the first significant intervention for the Sami of Soviet state power, 286 of a total of 371 Sami families still lived as semi-nomads .98 The new Soviet state was to put an end to this situation. 96Cf.: Konstantinov 2006, 5. 97Cf.: Rasmussen 1995, 48. 98Cf.: Klement'ev/Slygina 2003, 66. Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 41