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 tried as long as possible not to take part in the collectivization and were one of the last families to join the kolkhoz. They had to surrender everything: the reindeer and all the equipment. Nina Eliseevna complains that no one took account of how many not officially working members a family contained. With the small salary that the fa­ ther and mother earned from the kolkhoz, the eight-member household was worse off than before collectivization. Her father died in 1942 at the age of 53, when Nina Eliseevna was only three. He had fought in World War I and had therefore not been up called up for World War II. At that time, however, most of Nina Eliseevna's brothers were in the war, which is why the death of the father of the family at this juncture was especially difficult: Nina Eliseevna's mother and her brother Dmitrij who had stayed at home worked in the fishing industry of the kolkhoz and had to feed with their work not only themselves but also Nina Eliseevna and her sister. Two of Nina Eliseevna's brothers did not return from the war. During the war there was just about enough food, everything was weighed very carefully. There was never enough bread. Kolkhoz members received rather small quantities of the abundant fish and reindeer meat. For this reason the children also needed to help gather berries and wild onions in the summer. The Varzino kolkhoz also produced dairy products, as cows had been imported in addition to the rein­ deer. The dairy products were mostly transported by ship to Gremiha a hundred kil­ ometres away. As a widow, Nina Eliseevna's mother continued working after the war in the kol­ khoz as a cumrabotnica. This meant that she could not see her children for many months at a time since, together with the herdsmen, she accompanied the reindeer herds inland for the entire winter. In this way Nina Eliseevna spent much of her child­ hood with relatives. Later, her mother worked in the village as a cowherd to supple­ ment her meagre 20 rouble pension. After relocating to Varzino, the Afanas'evs had until 1960 no house of their own, living for 21 years with various relatives. First they lived in the house of an aunt, who with her husband had been sent in 1937 into exile as kulaks. After Nina Eliseevna's Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 44