Semiostrov

Semiostrov was a Sámi community of the eastern Kola Peninsula, also known as Nur-siit or the eastern siida. Its people maintained winter and summer settlements, moving from the forest through the tundra to the Barents Sea coast along routes associated with reindeer. A census in 1575 recorded forty-seven men in seventeen dwellings. In the early seventeenth century its winter pogost, then called Norensky, stood at Lake Lyavozero; later its position changed as the community followed its seasonal cycle.