The Rjurik Lonin Museum of Veps Ethnography in Shyoltozero (Russian: Шёлтозерский вепсский этнографический музей имени Р. Лонина, romanized: Shyoltozerskiĭ vepsskiĭ ètnograficheskiĭ muzeĭ imeni R. Lonina; Veps: Šoutjärven vepsläine etnografine Rjurik Lonin muzei) is a museum located in Shyoltozero (Veps Šoutjärv’) in the Republic of Karelia in the Prionezhskiĭ District, located 84 km south of Petrozavodsk, the capital of the republic.

Lonin had been interested in collecting folklore already in his early years during the Finnish occupation of his home area in the Second World War.

So in 1964, I wrote to the newspaper of our district, that is, the Prionezhkiĭ district, and asked the residents of all the Veps villages of Šokš, Vehkoi, Šoutarv, Kaleig and Kaskez to donate to our future national museum things that had become useless in their households, such as cooking forks, grinding stones, washing basins, birch bark and clay vessels, etc.

During the next few years Lonin repeatedly turned to the Sholtozero Selsoviet asking for premises for a museum, but to no effect.

According to the home pages of the museum, this house "was built in the mid-19th century and it is a monument of Karelian wooden architecture".

[2] The last noteworthy representative of this family was Nikolai Mel’kin (born 1929), who was a prominent and long-time member of the Sholtozero Veps National Choir.

Dmitriĭ Tuchin functioned as the village elder in the Finnish administration, but he also accommodated Soviet partisans in his house.

[3] The director of the museum is Ms. Natal’ya Ankhimova, originally from the Ogerišt village in the nearby Vehkoi.