Äyrämöiset

The Äyrämöiset or, as the Russians call them, Evrimeiset (Russian: Эвремейсы), were a Finnish language-speaking people who lived in the Saint Petersburg Oblast and earlier also on the Finnish part of the Karelian Isthmus.

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 villages of Luppolovo, Vartemyagi, Rappolovo, Toksovo, Baryshevo and Kavgolovo were all traditional areas of habitation of the Evrimeiset.