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Mythologies of the Vepsian Tribe

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  Veps , or  Vepsians  ( Veps :  vepsläižed ), are a  Baltic Finnic people  who speak the  Veps language , which belongs to the  Finnic  branch of the  Uralic languages .   According to the   2002 Russian census , there were 8,240 Veps in Russia. Of the 281 Veps in   Ukraine , 11 spoke Vepsian according to the   2001 Ukrainian census .  The self-designations of these people in various dialects are   vepslaine ,   bepslaane   and (in northern dialects, southwest of   Lake Onega )   lüdinik   and   lüdilaine . Almost all Vepsians are fluent in   Russian . The younger generation, in general, does not speak Vepsian; however, many have an understanding of the language.  In modern times, they live in the area between  Lake Ladoga , Lake Onega and  Lake Beloye  – in the Russian  Republic of Karelia  in the former  Veps National Volost , in...
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Mythologies of the Nenet Tribe

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The  Nenets  ( Nenets :  ненэй ненэче ,  romanized:   nenəj nenəče ;  Russian :  ненцы ,  romanized :   nentsy ), also known as 'Samoyeds' or 'Yuraks' (deprecated terms), are a  Samoyedic ethnic group  native to Arctic Russia,  Russian Far North . According to the latest census in 2021, there were 49,646 Nenets in the  Russian Federation , most of them living in the  Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug ,  Nenets Autonomous Okrug  and  Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District  stretching along the coastline of the  Arctic Ocean  near the  Arctic Circle  between  Kola  and  Taymyr  peninsulas. The Nenets people speak either the  Tundra  or  Forest  Nenets languages. In the  Russian Federation  they have a status of  Indigenous small-numbered peoples .  Today, the Nenets people face numerous challenges from the state and oil and gas...
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