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 Varzino they already no longer lived there. Meanwhile Nina Eliseevna, however, had started a family, and she took her mother to live with her to Apatity. In this way they lived relatively comfortably as four people in a four-room apartment: Nina, her hus band, her mother and the newborn child. In the emotionally most difficult part of the interview Nina Eliseevna spoke of the plight of her brothers. They lived in Lovozero until their death without ever hav ing their own living quarters, always with friends or relatives. Fate struck especially hard her brother Dmitrij. Torn from his home in Varzino, he was unable to find his feet professionally in Lovozero. Since officially unemployment did not exist, he, a man without regular work and housing, was repeatedly arrested for parasitism (tunejadstvo) and sent to a so-called 'profilaktorium'. In 1980 he was murdered in Lovozero in circumstances which could not be clarified in the interview. Since 1980 Nina Eliseevna has lived with her divorced son in Murmansk. In 1989 she was a key figure in the founding of the Sami organization Associacija Kol'skich Saamov and actively participates to this day in defending the interests of Russia's Sami. Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 48
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