Leningrad Oblast is a federal subject of Russia. The oblast has an area of 84,500 square kilometres (32,600 sq mi) and a population of 2,000,997 ; up from 1,716,868 recorded in the 2010 Census. Leningrad Oblast is highly industrialized. Its administrative center and largest city is Gatchina.
Monrepos Park in Vyborg
The Vuoksi in Priozersk
The Oredezh River near Siversky
The fortress in Staraya Ladoga
Veps, also known as Vepsian, is a Finnic language from the Uralic language family, that is spoken by Vepsians. The language is written in the Latin script, and is closely related to Finnish and Karelian.
A Soviet textbook for native speakers of Veps printed in the 1930s
Road sign in Shyoltozero in Russian and Veps