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Introducing Lovozero
The village of Lovozero, a 110km drive northeast of Monchegorsk, is the main Sami centre on the Kola Peninsula (and in Russia). About 900 of the 2000 Russian Sami live here, though some 300 of those are away much of the year following reindeer herds. Russian Sami were forcibly collectivised and brutally suppressed here under Stalin. Today Sami culture is reviving, in part thanks to contacts with the more numerous Sami in Scandinavia. Reindeer herders and reindeer can generally only be seen in Lovozero from December till March.
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Sberbank(ul Sovetskaya; 10am-1pm & 2.45-6pm Mon-Fri) changes currency and will give cash advances on Visa, Cirrus, MasterCard and Maestro cards.
Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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