Rjurik Lonin Writer
Rjurik Petrovič Lonin — this is the Veps spelling of his name — (Russian: Рю́рик Петро́вич Ло́нин; 22 September 1930, Kaskez’ village (Russian: Каскезруче́й) in the present Prionezhskiĭ raĭon, Karelian ASSR, Soviet Union – 17 July 2009, Šoutar’v, Prionezhskiĭ raĭon, Republic of Karelia, Russia) was a Veps student of the local lore and collector of Veps folklore, founder of The Rjurik Lonin Veps Ethnographic Museum in Šoutar’v (Shyoltozero), and an author in the Veps and Russian languages. He has been characterised as the most important Veps person ever to have lived and the best known Veps person of his time.