Finnish language - one of the Finno-Ugric languages (Balto-Finnic group). The number of the Finns in Russia is 47,1 thousand. 36,2 % of them regard Finnish as their mother tongue, 63,1 % Russian. Most of the Russian Finns are descendants of 17th century migrants to Ingria (contemporary Leningrad region). From the beginning of the 1920's Finnish has been used as an official language in the Karelian republic.

Finnish language in Russia

• Electronic Corpus of Ingrian Finnish - A pilot project of the Joensuu and Bergen universities for making a corpus of spoken Ingrian Finnish available via WWW

Educational institutions

• Faculty of Balto-Finnic philology and culture of the Petrozavodsk university - Information in English, Finnish and Russian

Mass media

• Carelia - Culture journal published in Finnish in the Republic of Karelia
• Inkeri - Publication of the Ingrian union in Russian
• Inkerin kirkko (Church of Ingria) - Publication of the Ingrian Lutheran church in Finnish and Russian
• Karjalan Sanomat - Finnish newspaper published in the Republic of Karelia

Pages in Finnish

• Inkerin liitto - Web-site of the Ingrian union in Finnish and Russian
• Karjalan tasavallan kansallinen kirjasto - Finnish pages of the National library of the Republic of Karelia
• Karjalan Tasavalta - Finnish version of the official government server of the Republic of Karelia
• Kulttuurisivuja Karjalasta - Pages on the culture of the Balto-Finnic peoples of Karelia - Finns, Karelians and the Veps
• Petroskoin yliopisto - Finnish pages of the Petrozavodsk university
• Tervetuloa Karjalaan! - Finnish pages on the server Onego (Petrozavodsk)