Votes, sometimes also
Vods are a people of Votia in
Ingria, the part of modern-day northwestern
Russia that is roughly southwest of
Saint Petersburg and east of the Estonian border-town of
Narva. The
Finnic Votic language spoken by Votes is close to
extinction. Votians were one of the founding people of
Veliky Novgorod. The Votic language is still spoken in three villages of historical Votia and by an unknown number of fluent Votic speakers in the countryside. The villages are
Jõgõperä (Krakolye),
Liivcülä (Peski), and
Luuditsa (Luzhitsy).