katrin efremov was born in 1932, she and all her ancestors are koltassaams. is a small ethnic group of the eastern samms, of which there are about a thousand people left in the world today. she speaks a sama language, and even less, no more than 400 among them and katrin, but then because of the war, still completely little girl. i moved with my parents to these places. there are a lot of us where they lived in ira’s kollaik but eventually settled in nely, also called claws or skolts, they professed orthodoxy back in the 16th century. their ancestors were baptized by the monk tryphon of kola, who has since been revered as an educator of the lapps, that is, for such orthodox cults, this wonderful wooden church was built in neli. i remember very well how this church was built 20 years ago for all of us. it was a great joy, especially when an iconostasis carved from wood. all this was done by our people from the village of the petson region of the now pechenga region. the murmansk region can be easily identified; in russian, their surnames all end in off, efremo