Saami settlement Chalmny-Varre (Ivanovka) | petroglyph, abandoned / shut down, interesting place, ghost town

 petroglyph, abandoned / shut down, interesting place, ghost town

Kamensky Sami to sources familiar with the XVIII century. They lived on the middle reaches Ponoya and kochevali for small spaces, mainly in the latitudinal direction along the left bank of the River. Their churchyard (one winter and two summer) were not far from each other (within a 10-20 km), and they have one thing in common cemetery located at Ponoe, on the island, nosivshem Saami name Chalmny-Varre, which means "visible Forest "(or Eyes of Forests: The literal translation of this name reads" Barak my eyes ").

Kamensky Sami, thus, in the Kola Peninsula has been one of the most isolated groups of the Sami population. However, there is suggesting that this group represents the descendants of the "leshey lopi" which appears in the sources of the XVI-XVII centuries. and which is still at the beginning of the XVIII century. Obi [55] Tala in the far north of Karelia. In this case, you might think that Kamensky Sami before the hit on the Kola Peninsula, had contacts with the Republic of Karelia.

Kamensky Sami were difficult, remote from any area of ways and until the first decades of the XX century. lived rather isolated. Their external contacts were limited, usually infrequent departures in Varzuga winter (summer there was no way there) - Russian Tersko village on the bank of the White Sea, lying for many miles from Ponoya.
Only in 1917 in Chalmny-Varre settled first family Komi-izhemtsa Ivan Artieva, which launched here later emerged the village Ivanovka, named by the name of first settlers. In 1930, when Ivanovka izhemsky-organized Sami reindeer herding collective farm, moved here and Sami Kamensk churchyard. And in the 1960's in connection with the project construction on Ponoe power and anticipated flooding of the site all the people Ivanovka moved in the higher lying village Ponoyu Krasnoshchelye.

In 1973, near the tract Chalmny-Expedition Varre NN Gurin and V.Ya. Shumkina detected six stones on a flat surface which cut different images - the petroglyphs. They are carved on the surface of six boulders, the largest of which has an area of almost 7 m2. The number of pictures on them ranging from 2-3 to 60. Depict scenes of hunting deer and elk, kamlaniya shaman, born fawns. Researchers attribute the creation of drawings to the II - I millennium BC. e. By N. Turinoy, in both content and form, there are certain points of contact with the petroglyphs of Karelia.
Now Chalmny-Varre available for inspection five stones with petroglyphs, sixth in March 1988 was taken to the Museum of the History of Kola Sami in the village. Revda

Chalmny-Varre - the birthplace of the first Sámi poet Oktyabriny Voronovo.
Oktyabrina Voronova - the first member of the Writers' Union of the Soviet Union from the Sami, the first poet writing in the Sami language. Published collection of poems «Snezhnitsa» (1986), «Free Bird» (1987), «Chahtli» (1989), «The field of life» (1995), «Yalá» (1989). In the village. Revda a museum O. Voronovo.