The book is dedicated to the history and culture of the Vepsians - one of the indigenous peoples of the North-West of Russia. The author, based on the available sources, set the task to present the history of the origin of the Veps people, versions of the etymology of its ethnonyms, the course of ethnic processes in the region of historical and modern residence of the Veps, basic information about its material and spiritual culture, the history of the study of the Veps.