Anfisa Ageeva

Anfisa Maksimovna Ageeva, also Anfisa/Anfissa Agejeva/Ageyeva (, née Zakharova (Russian: Захарова); born 12 February 1952, in Kanevka, Murmansk, Soviet Union ) is a Russian Kildin Sámi author, translator, musician, and activist. In 2001, she was the first Sámi person from Russia to participate in the Sámi Grand Prix and the first to win it.

Early life Anfisa Maksimovna Zakharova was born on 12 February 1952 in Kanevka . and her mother Mariya Ivanovna Zakharova (1922–2008). Together they went on to have a total of 9 children.

In 1962, the Soviet Union decided to build the Serebryanskaya hydroelectric power station near where they lived. To do this, they had to dam the Koarrdõgk River. A few years later, when the entire village of Koarrdõgk was going to be flooded and submerged under the new reservoir, the family were moved to Lovozero.

Music The traditional vocal music of the East Sámi, mostly known as leuʹdd from Skolt Sámi has been a part of Ageeva's life since she was born. Both Ageeva's mother and grandmother sang luvvts and her mother was a famous singer of them. Her mother sang these with music groups like Lujavvr and Ojar . Some of her luvvts have been recorded; these are archived in Norway, Estonia, Germany, etc. A couple of years later, she entered again in the same category, but this time with her sister Domna Khomyuk.

Publications Editorial work 2014 – Са̄мь-рӯшш са̄ннҍнэххьк / Саамско-Русский словарь by A. A. Antonova (ed. together with Semyon Galkin, Domna Khomyuk, Elisabeth Scheller)

Translations 2007 – Вӣллькесь пуаз (translation of Ivan Yakovlevich Matryokhin's The White Reindeer, Russian: "Белый олень" together with A. A. Antonova) 2019 – Same: 100 mennesker i Sápmi/100 people in Sápmi/100 olbmo Sámis 2021 – Вуэјјтэм Пе̄ййв (from the Russian День Победы)

Discography Compilation albums

2001 – Sami Grand Prix 2001 2003 – Sami Grand Prix 2003 together with Domna Khomyuk 2005 – Davvi Jienat - Northern Voices 2007 – Sami Grand Prix '07 2013 – Sámi Grand Prix 2013 2014 – Сборник саамских песен 2015 – Сборник саамских сказок 2017 – Богатырь Ляйне 2019 – Sámi Grand Prix 2019 together with Domna Khomyuk