[2] Around the end of the Tsardom era, there were about 40 villages or towns where Murmansk Finns lived.

However two thirds of Murmansk Finns stayed in Soviet Russia.

During the Stalin era, the Murmansk Finns were heavily persecuted, being accused of espionage[3] The last Murmansk Finnish villages were emptied in 1940, when 6,973 "citizens of foreign nationalities": Finns, Norwegians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, and Swedes were deported.

[1][4] The survivor, artist and writer Sven Lokka in his books described the experience of Murmansk Finns.

[5] Agnessa Haikara wrote a documentary book "Неизвестная северная история" (Unknown Northern History) about the persecution of 210 Murmansk Finns and Kola Norwegians (printed in Finnish as Kuka koputtaa ovellesi?, "Who is Knocking at Your Door?