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 At the age of 20, Marija Alekseevna married the Komi Ivan Popov. He was not, however, a local man. He came from the Komi Republic and was in Voron'e on official business. Immediately after marrying, Marija Alekseevna gave up her work on the kolkhoz and moved with her husband to Eremeevo, a village in the Republic of Komi, near the capital of Syktyvkar. There they lived thirteen years, with Marija Alekseevna learning the Komi language during this time. She initially worked in Eremeevo as the secretary of the village soviet (sel'sovet), and after the birth of her first child was em­ ployed as a nurse in the infirmary. During this time a sad fate befell Marija Alekseevna's home village of Voron'e: a hydroelectric power plant was to be built there and the village had to make way for the resulting dam. 1964 all residents were evacuated - mainly to Lovozero -, and the village was flooded. Here again hardly any living space had been prepared in Lovozero for the evacuees, nor were they allowed to dismantle their log houses and rebuild them elsewhere. Marija Alekseevna's older sister was particularly unfortunate: she and her family had only just built a new house in Voron'e when they were in­ formed that the village was to be liquidated. The family had lived just one year in the new house when they had to leave it. Of course, the shock was very great, and no one understood why the population could not have been warned at an earlier stage. Despite the house having been flooded, the family had to spend several years paying off the debts for it. A few years ago, Marija Alekseevna's sister received compensa­ tion of 10,000 roubles for the former, government-inflicted damage - an amount cor­ responding to a low monthly wage. In 1969 Marija Alekseevna returned with her husband and children from the Komi ASSR to the Kola Peninsula. They had chosen to move for the sake of their chil­ dren. Since the road to school was too long and dangerous in Eremeevo, they decid­ ed to move to Lovozero, where the school was in the village itself and the children were therefore safe. Also most of Marija Alekseevna's relatives were now living in Lovozero, and initially the family lived with Marija Alekseevna's mother. Marija Ale­ kseevna now worked in the Pioneers House (i.e. the house of the Pioneers state youth organization) and ran craft groups in which she taught traditional Sami bead- Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 59