Sevettijärvi
Sevettijärvi [ ˈsɛvɛtːijærvi ] ( Skoltsamisch Čeʹvetjäuʹrr , North Sami Čeavetjávri ) is a village in the municipality of Inari in Finnish Lapland . It has about 350 inhabitants and is located in the north of the municipality around 120 km northeast of the village of Inari 35 km from the Norwegian border. Sevettijärvi is on the road that leads from Kaamanen to Näätämö to the border crossing to Norway and on to Kirkenes . Sevettijärvi does not present itself as a closed village, but as a very widely scattered street village , in which the houses are lined up along the road for a length of no less than 60 kilometers at a distance from each other.
The inhabitants of Sevettijärvis are mainly Skolt seeds who were evacuated from the Petsamo (Petschenga) area, which Finland had to cede to the Soviet Union, after the Second World War . The village was founded in 1949 when 51 evacuated families were settled here. The road connection was only completed in 1971. Today Sevettijärvi is the largest Skoltsamian settlement. In the village there is a school, a health center, a bar, a grocery kiosk, a reindeer butcher and an Orthodox church, built in 1951 and dedicated to the Holy Trifon of Pechenga .
Web links
- Inari tourism portal: Sevettijärvi (English)
- Sevettijärvi website (Finnish)
Coordinates: 69 ° 30 ' N , 28 ° 37' E