Mootka

Mootka recalls Motka and the Motovsky Sámi district of the northern Kola coast. The name appears on a map of 1595, while the Motovskaya inlet lies along the Barents Sea shore. Records of 1608 counted Sámi inhabitants in the Motovsky, Pechenga and Pazreka districts. Fishing and reindeer herding supported communities whose lands extended between the coast and the peninsula's inland lakes and forests.