Domna Khomyuk

On April 27, 2019, Khomyuk received the Áillohaš Music Award, a Sámi music award conferred by the municipality of Kautokeino and the Kautokeino Sámi Association to honor the significant contributions the recipient or recipients has made to the diverse world of Sámi music.

In 2002, the year after her sister won the yoik category of the Sámi Grand Prix, Khomyuk entered the yoik and song competition for the first time. Her entry for the yoik category was a luvvt called Luojavr (Kildin Sami: Луяввьр), which describes Lovozero, her home town. In 2003 and 2019 she competed in the same category, but now as a duo with her sister Anfisa Ageeva. In 2003, their entry was entitled Duottar and in 2019, Vuess. In 2021, Khomyuk entered the competition once again, this time as a solo act. Her entry was called Parrša vigket (Kildin Sami: Па̄ррьшя вигетѣ).

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.

Domna Maksimovna Khomyuk (née Zakharova, Kildin Sami: Туомн Хомюк, Russian: Домна Максимовна Хомюк, née Захарова; born September 10, 1954 in Koarrdõgk, Murmansk, Soviet Union) is a Kildin Sámi zootechnician, author, translator, and musician. She is also active in the revitalization of the Kildin Sámi language and culture.

Domna Maksimovna Khomyuk was born on September 10, 1954 in Koarrdõgk (Kildin Sami: Коа̄ррдэгк and Russian: Воронье). Her parents were reindeer herders and decorated war veterans. Her father was Maksim Antonovich Zakharov (1919–1984) and her mother Mariya Ivanovna Zakharova (1922–2008). Together they went on to have a total of 9 children