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 4.1 Nina Eliseevna Afanas'eva Illustration 2: Nina Afanas'eva (photo: Lukas Allemann, 2008). Nina Eliseevna Afanas'eva was born in 1939 in the Sami village of Varzino. Her par­ ents had moved as late as 1937 from the settlement of Semiostrov'e, which was liq­ uidated in the course of collectivization, to the newly-founded village of Varzino where they settled for good. Nina Eliseevna was the youngest child in the family, and her sisters Anastasija and Viktorija - the latter died while an infant - and her four brothers Artёm, Vjaceslav, Aleksandr und Dmitrij had all been born while the family was still in Semiostrov'e. It was only after moving to Varzino that Nina Eliseevna's parents became mem­ bers of the kolkhoz (collective farm). Previously they had owned a herd of about 150 reindeer, a rather small number given the large size of the family. The parents had Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 43