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 Illustration 3: August 1958, the beginning of the journey from Varzino to the distant Leningrad (by ship to Murmansk, and then on by train), to study (Nina Afanas'eva - private archive). Upon graduation, Nina Eliseevna had a choice of teaching posts at three locations in the Murmansk region. She opted for Apatity, a city some 200 kilometres south of Murmansk. The main reason for this choice was that the city was well connected to the transport network, with direct rail and air links to St. Petersburg, and for Nina Eliseevna it was important to be able to visit the city of her studies at any time. In this way she opted finally for an urban life and against returning to a rural existence. When Nina Eliseevna took up her teaching position in 1963, she already knew that very soon her home village of Varzino would be liquidated. In 1964 all inhabit­ ants had to leave Varzino, including Nina Eliseevna's mother and the two remaining brothers. The state planned to merge several kolkhozy and to relocate their employ­ ees to Lovozero, the newly created centre of the Sami. The problem was that, as so often, no housing was available for the newcomers. Nina Eliseevna tells how her mother and brothers were not given their own living quarters and did not receive real jobs, because all this was simply not available. Nina Eliseevna and her sister had of course no right to housing in Lovozero, because at the time of the liquidation of Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 47