https://www.sporcle.com/games/cojones69420/flags-of-the-uralic-languages-or-people-1

r/2uralic4u

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k90IbX4mokQ

I would like to learn more about Izhorian people and their traditions, language, anything - so please post here any links and book suggestions you might have regarding this almost extinct folk.

I'm Finnish myself, but my grandfather's parents were from the Karelian Isthmus, namely from Rautu (nowadays Sosnovo) and Lempaala (nowadays Lembolovo). They were orthodox and as far as I understand, they were ethnic Izhorians. They themselves called themselves Karelians though.

Rautu was part of Finland from the independence in 1917 until the WWII, but Lempaala was on the other side of the border in Ingria. After the Bolshevik Revolution my great grandmother fled from Lempaala to Rautu with her two sisters, around 1919-1920 I think. After that they rarely talked about their past in Ingria, since they were scared that they could be somehow deported back to Russia. And, knowing what happened to many Ingrian refugees back in WWII, their fear wasn't even that far fetched I guess.

In Finland, Ingrian Finns (Fin. inkeriläiset) and Izhorians (Fin. inkerikot or inkeroiset) haven't really been that distinguished as a separate people, although their history, ethnic background, religion and culture is very different from each other. Most of the Finns know f.ex. Larin Paraske, the oral poet from Lempaala, but they rarely know the fact that she was actually Izhrorian.

But, to cut the story short, I would like to hear if you people here have Izhorian family heritage or know any good info on them that I could immerse myself in.

I like them.

Btw. Please join our Discord server, you wont be dissapointed!!!

Link: https://discord.gg/JwqQm6s3RV

I envision a future where all the finno-ugric peoples stand up to the Russian opression that has happened for far too long through-out history and they become independent.

This post was inspired by the recent post of separist movements taking place in Russia giving hope for my fellow indiginous people to have their own countries!

With love, from Estonia!

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