2008/01/01 by Robert P. Wheelersburg, Natalia Gutsol · 1 citation
Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Indigenous Studies and Ecology #Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
paper · doi:10.1353/arc.0.0004
openalex publication_date 2008/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
This multidisciplinary project focused on the Western Kola Peninsula and examined how human activities during the pre-industrial and industrial periods influenced changes in the environment such as pollution in the Imandra Lake watershed. The study concentrated on two Saami reindeer herding <i>pogosty</i> [communities] on the Western Kola Peninsula during the period from the 1880s until 1940. English, Russian, and Scandinavian ethnographies, photographs, and maps dating from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century depicted the two <i>pogosty</i>, named Babinski and Ekostrovski, and recent interviews of Saami born in the 1920s and 1930s provided data concerning two decades after the Revolution. The data suggest that the two <i>pogosty</i> underwent significant changes during the study period. These changes resulted from residents adapting to new economic circumstances or from the Soviet program involving relocation and centralization of the reindeer herding communities in the region. Both Babinski and Eko-strovski ceased to exist as Saami reindeer herding communities sometime before World War II.