Materials of the first interregional local history conference "Lonin Readings", with. Sheltozero, September 22, 2010. The publication of the collection was carried out within the framework of the regional target program "Harmonization of national and confessional relations, the formation of civil consent in the Republic of Karelia for 2007-2011" ("Karelia - the territory of consent") for 2011 . The Museum Funds of the Sheltozero Veps Ethnographic Museum . R. P. Lonin has more than 8.5 thousand storage units, it is supplemented by archival and book collections. All this is a good basis for researchers of several generations .. Materials about veps, their knowledge P. P. Lonin never kept with him, he gladly shared them with scientists who were frequent guests in his house, with schoolchildren, for whom, as he said, he collected everything. R. P. Lonin is well known not only by domestic, but also by foreign researchers of Veps and other Finno-Ugric peoples. With many of them, he had an active correspondence .. Today Sheltozer Veps Ethnographic Museum . R. P. Lonina is a place of communication between scientists, local historians, students and students, everyone who enthusiastically travels around the Veps region, learns an interesting, diverse world in which we live.