Nellim
Nellim [ nɛlːim ] ( Inari Sami Njellim , Skoltsamisch Njeä'llem ) is a village in the municipality of Inari in Finnish Lapland . It has 194 inhabitants and is 42 km northeast of the main town Ivalo at the southeast end of Lake Inarijärvi, not far from the Russian border.
Three different cultures and languages are represented in the village: The original inhabitants of Nellim are Inari seeds . Finnish forest workers settled in the village in the 1920s and 1930s . After the Second World War , Skoltsamen from the Petsamo (Petschenga) area, which Finland had to cede to the Soviet Union , were settled in Nellim .
In the village there is a boat harbor, a "wilderness hotel", a cafeteria, a grocery store, a primary school and an Orthodox church. The wooden structure was built in 1987 by the Orthodox Skolt Seeds and is dedicated to the Holy Trinity and the Holy Trifon of Pechenga .
In 2009, reindeer herders and lumberjacks settled a conflict by agreeing, among other things, a 20-year freeze on trees in the jungle.
Web links
- Inari tourism portal : Nellim ( Memento from January 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- Wilderness Hotel Nellim (English, Finnish, French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ As of December 31, 2005, website of the municipality of Inari: Tilastotietoja Inarin kunnasta ( Memento of March 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Finnish)
- ↑ Nellimin metsäkiistassa sopu - YLE Lappi, August 24, 2009 (Finnish)
- ↑ The Stubborn Shepherd - taz , December 24, 2009
Coordinates: 68 ° 51 ' N , 28 ° 19' E