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- The Soviet authorities started to oppress the Vepsian culture in 1937.
- Teachers started to instruct in Vepsian in some elementary schools.
- The Vepsians living in Vologda Oblast speak the central group of Veps dialects.
- The new Vepsian republican authorities granted some budgetary autonomy to the commune in 1996.
- Eastern Vepsians in the Kargopol area merged linguistically with the Russians before the 20th century.
- Vepsians numbered 25, 607 in 1897.
- There is a belief that President Vladimir Putin of Russia is potentially of Vepsian ancestry.
- In the village of Ladva, a private museum devoted to Vepsian culture was open.
- The existence of the Vepsian people was not widely known until the mid-19th century.
- In the beginning of the 20th century there were some signs of national awakening among Vepsians.
- Babayevsky and Vytegorsky District in the northwest of the oblast belong to the areas traditionally populated by Vepsians.
- Abramov composed poems and literature in both Vepsian and Russian, which have been translated into more than 20 languages.
- He was the author of seven collections of poetry, which have been released in Vepsian, Russian, Hungarian.
- Nowadays the young generation in general does not speak the language, Though the actual population of Vepsians continues to grow.
- The area was populated by the Finno-Ugric peoples, whose descendants, Vepsians, still live in the district.
- When Finland invaded East Karelia in the Continuation war, some Vepsians joined the so-called Kindred Battalion of the Finnish Army.
- However, there exists the special law about state support and protection of the Karelian, Vepsian and Finnish languages in the republic.
- Despite its close relationship to the Finnish languages, the Vepsian language was thus one of the last Uralic languages to be recognized as one.
- In the 12th-15th century, the territory was divided between the Kingdom of Sweden and Novgorod Republic ( see Swedish-Novgorodian Wars ) and mostly populated mostly by various Baltic Finns people such as Karelians ( northwest ), Izhorians and Votes ( west ), Vepsians ( east ), as well as Ilmen Slavs of Novgorod ( south ).
- Some Swedish historians have suggested that the ancient Kvens were actually a Scandinavian and not a Finnish group, but these views have little support nowadays . The Swedish archaeologist Thomas Wallerstr鰉 suggests that the Kvens / kainulaiset was a collective name for several Finnic groups participating in the west-east fur-trade, not just southern Finns but ancestors of Karelians and Vepsians as well.