Veps National Volost (russian: Ве́псская национа́льная во́лость, ''Vepsskaya natsionalnaya volost''; vep, Vepsän rahvahaline volost’) was a municipal autonomy (a ''
volost
Volost ( rus, во́лость, p=ˈvoləsʲtʲ; ) was a traditional administrative subdivision in Eastern Europe.
In earlier East Slavic history, '' volost'' was a name for the territory ruled by the knyaz, a principality; either as an absolute ...
'') of North
Vepses in
Prionezhsky District of the
Republic of Karelia
The Republic of Karelia (russian: Респу́блика Каре́лия, Respublika Kareliya; ; krl, Karjalan tašavalta; ; fi, Karjalan tasavalta; vep, Karjalan Tazovaldkund, Ludic: ''Kard’alan tazavald''), also known as just Karelia (ru ...
,
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-ei ...
. The autonomy was established on January 20, 1994, and it was discontinued in 2004. Its territorial centre was the
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...
(''
selo'') of
Shyoltozero. The volost's population was 3,166 in the
2002 Census with a Veps population of 1,202.
[http://www.gov.karelia.ru/Regions/Veps/vepnac.html#1] The volost extended over the same territory as the
Shyoltozero District
Shyoltozero ( rus, Шёлтозеро, p=ˈʂoltəzʲɪrə; vep, Šoutjärv’; krl, Šoutjärvi; fi, Soutjärvi) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in Prionezhsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located close to the shore of Lake On ...
from the 1930s to the 1950s.
The volost was municipally divided into three rural settlements (
Shyoltozero,
Shoksha, and
Rybreka) comprising thirteen villages.
[''Charter of the Municipal Formation of Veps National Volost'', adopted on January 19, 2002]
References
Geography of the Republic of Karelia
Vepsia
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