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 the entire family, which consisted, apart from Apollinarija Ivanovna and her mother, of two brothers and two sisters. For five years they were required to live the whole year round in Voron'e because reindeer herding as a whole was severely limited. There was little to eat, and they had to work hard for it. The brother worked as a herder from the age of twelve, and her mother too was busy with the animals almost round the clock. With the reindeer she transported goods to other places (like almost everywhere on the Kola Peninsula, there were no roads in the area). At age 11 Apollinarija Ivanovna began to work alongside school, looking after small children in a nursery which was opened in the summer months to enable the adults to go about their work in the kolkhoz. As a worker she received 700 grams of bread a day instead of the previous 300 grams, which was a major help for the family in those hard times. Apollinarija Ivanovna says that the abundance of fish and wildlife helped little for surviving. With all the men gone and so much work in the kolkhoz, most of the pro­ duce of which was sent to the front, there were hardly time or hands to go fishing or hunting privately. On the way back from work or school, family members often gath­ ered mushrooms or berries. This was a crucial additional food source, at least during the short summer and autumn months. Apollinarija Ivanovna attended school between the age of eight and twelve (1941 -1945), four classes in all. Even if no Sami was spoken in their class, the teachers in Voron'e did not try to strictly 'ban' the Sami language, as was the case in Lovozero or Gremiha where the Russian portion of the population was much higher. Apollinari­ ja Ivanovna speaks with joy of her teacher, a Ukrainian who had more or less learned Sami, and enjoyed communicating in Sami with the children during the free time. Although the war was already over in May 1945, her father returned only in Oc­ tober. But the visit was short-lived, as in addition to unplanned military service, he now had to do the regular compulsory military service. In this way the father was dis­ charged from the army only in 1950, after eight years. Apollinarija Ivanovna had worked in the kolkhoz since finishing primary school, and married in 1952. She had met her future husband, the Sami Vassiliy Nikolaevic Golyh, two years earlier at the age of 18. Apollinarija Ivanovna also tells of a Russian who had come with an expedi­ Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 62