Nellim

Nellim [ nɛl in ː ] ( Inari Njellim, Skoltsamisch Njeä'llem ) is a village in the municipality of Inari in Finnish Lapland. It has 194 inhabitants and is located 42 km north-east of the main town Ivalo at the southeast end of Lake Inari lake near the Russian border.

In the village of three different cultures and languages ​​are represented: the original inhabitants Nellims are Inarisamen. In the 1920s and 1930s Finnish forest workers settled in the village. After the Second World War Skolt were from the area of Petsamo ( Pechenga ) which Finland was forced to cede to the Soviet Union, based in Nellim.

In the village there is a marina, a " Wilderness Hotel ", a cafeteria, a grocery store, a primary school and an Orthodox church. The wooden building was erected in 1987 by the Orthodox Skolt and is of the Holy Trinity and the Holy Trifon of Pechenga consecrated.

2009 laid reindeer herders and loggers in a conflict by agreeing a 20-year logging ban for forest trees, among others.