Sven Lokka, pen name Oskar Talvi (, Sven Petrovich Lokko) ( March 3, 1924 – November 15, 2008) was a Soviet and Russian Finnish writer and painter.Sergey Shiryayev, 3 марта исполняется 99 лет со дня рождения писателя и художника Свена ЛоккоSven LokkaФинские поселенцы на Мурмане, картины Свена ЛоккоTaitelija Sven Lokka kuollut
He lost his father during the Great Purge. During the Winter War, he, together with other "foreign nationals", was forcibly resettled from Murmansk Oblast to Karelia during the Soviet campaign of cleansing the border regions of undesirables. In his books he described the experience of Murmansk Finns.
He was one of the three persons presented in the documentary Historian unohtamat – tarina Muurmannin rannan viimeisistä suomalaisista (Forgotten by history - the story of the last Finns on the Murmansk coast)Historian unohtamat – tarina Muurmannin rannan viimeisistä suomalaisista
Works Lapin lämpöä suonissa, Karjala-kustantamo, 1983 Kaamos ja valo, Karjala-kustantamo, 1991 Muurmannin suomalaiset, 1993 Missä on muuttolinnun kotimaa, 1999 Kun muuttolintu ei palaa, Levin sanomat, 2006 Muistoja Muurmannilta, Lapin maakuntamuseo, 2008 ISBN 978-951-98439-1-9
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