Vepses or vepsians are Finnic people that speak Veps language, which belongs to the Baltic-Finnic branch of Finno-ugric family. The self-names of these people in various dialects are vepslaine, bepslaane and (in Northern dialects, South-West of Lake Onega) ludi, ludilaine. Finnic (Fennic, sometimes Baltic Finnic) may refer to Finnish-similar languages spoken close to the Gulf of Finland, i. ... Veps language, spoken by Vepses, belongs to the Baltic-Finnic group of the Finno-Ugric languages. ... Lake Onega (also known as Onego, Onezhskoe ozero (from Russian, Онежское озеро), and Onezhskoe lake) is a lake in the Russian Federation. ...

In early Russian chronicles they are called "Весь" (Ves). Kievan Rus′ (Ки́евская Ру́сь, Kievskaya Rus in Russian; Київська Русь, Kyivs’ka Rus’ in Ukrainian) was the early, mostly East Slavic¹ state dominated by the city of Kiev (ru: Ки́ев, Kiev; uk: Ки́їв, Kyiv), from about 880 to the middle of the 12th century. ...

Presently they live compactly in Republic of Karelia in the area between Lake Ladoga, Lake Onega (Äänisjärv) and White Lake (Valgjärv, Белое Озеро), in Leningrad Oblast by the Oyat River, and in the Eastern part of the Leningrad Oblast with the part of Vologda Oblast. For other uses of Karelia, see Karelia (disambiguation). ... Map of Scandinavia Lake Ladoga (Russian: Ладожское озеро, Finnish: Laatokka) is the largest lake in Europe, located in Karelia, since WWII in northwestern Russia near the border to Finland. ... Lake Onega (also known as Onego, Onezhskoe ozero (from Russian, Онежское озеро), and Onezhskoe lake) is a lake in the Russian Federation. ... Leningrad Oblast (Russian: Ленингра́дская о́бласть; tr. ... Categories: Stub | Oblasts of Russia ...

External link

• The Peoples of the Red Book: THE VEPS (http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/veps.shtml)