Veps or Vepsians are a Finnic people that speak the Veps language, which belongs to the Baltic-Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric languages. The self-designations of these people in various dialects are vepslaine, bepslaane, and (in northern dialects, southwest of Lake Onega) lüdinik and lüdilaine. In early Russian chronicles, they're called "Весь" (Ves’). From archeological studies and old names suggest that they lived at least in the valleys of the rivers… (More on Veps)