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 4.3 Anastasija Nikolaevna Matrehina Illustration 5: Anastasija Matrehina (photo: Lukas Allemann, 2007). Anastasija Nikolaevna Mat^hina was born in 1928 on the Kola Peninsula in the Lum- bovka settlement on the Barents Sea coast, a Sami village that could be reached only by sea, and in the winter by sleigh. As a child, Anastasija Nikolaevna experienced the period of collectivization. Prior to collectivization, her family lived from traditional reindeer herding, fishing and hunting, and hardly ever came into contact with the authorities. Without giving an exact data, Anastasija Nikolaevna recounts that along with Soviet state power there came to their village for the first time, apart from the kol khoz, institutions such as a school, a village council (sel'sovet) and a post office. Con tract labour was one 'achievement' of the Soviet state, that Anastasija Nikolaevna Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 52
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