Tepyaeks

Tepyaeks (TEPTERIAKS), a Finno-Tatar people of East Russia, chiefly in the government of Ufa, but also in Orenburg and Perm, numbering (1893) 126,000; appear to be originally Volga Finns, and still speak a Finnish dialect, but the type has been greatly modified by crossings with the surrounding Bashkir and Turki populations; are now being gradually Russified.