Vologda Oblast
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Vologda Oblast is a federal subject of Russia. Its administrative center is Vologda. The oblast has a population of 1,202,444. The largest city is Cherepovets, the home of the Severstal metallurgical plant, the largest industrial enterprise in the oblast.
View of Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery. A lithograph from 1897
The building of the Legislative Assembly in Vologda
The building of the government of the Vologda Oblast and the administration of the governor
A tall bank of the Sukhona River
Veps language
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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