The Äyrämöiset or, as the

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ns call them, Evrimeiset ( Russian: Эвремейсы), were a

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-speaking people who lived in the Saint Petersburg Oblast and earlier also on the Finnish part of the

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. Äyrämöiset are one of the two main Finnish speaking groups in St. Petersburg Oblast, the other being the Savakot. Most of the Äyrämöiset are Lutherans. The name Äyrämöiset (äkrämöiset) comes from the ancient county of Äyräpää (Äkräpää) in the Western part of the Karelian Isthmus - which was a part of the kingdom of Sweden after 1323 AD. In earlier times existed as well an agricultural deity called Äkräs (Ägräs), the god of beans, peas and hemp and the mythological forefather of the Äyrämöiset. The Äyrämöiset made up the majority of the population of the Province of Ingria, when it was established in the 17th century. The Äyrämöiset did not mix with the immigrants from Savonia, but by the 20th century, the intermixing between them, the Savonian immigrants and the indigenous Izhorians was indistinguishable, and the Izhorians came to be known as the indigenous people of Ingria. The language of the Evrimeiset was not documented, but thought to be related to Finnish and Karelian (perhaps as an intermediary between the 2). The villages of Luppolovo, Vartemyagi, Rappolovo, Toksovo, Baryshevo and Kavgolovo were all traditional areas of habitation of the Evrimeiset.

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*Wixman, Ronald. ''The Peoples of the USSR: An Ethnographic Handbook''. (Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc, 1984) p. 17 *Olson, James S., ''An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires''. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994) p. 59 {{DEFAULTSORT:Ayramoiset Ethnic groups in Russia Finnic people Indigenous peoples of Europe Ingria Finnish diaspora