For this purpose the Section finds it expedient to establish a commission on regional co-operation that would also examine the prerequisites for solving the problems of Ingrian Finns and other Finno-Ugric peoples dispersed in diasporas.
1939. a. rahvaloenduse andmeil elas Leningradi oblastis veel 106710 soomlast (Vsesojuznaja perepis naselenija 1939 g., 1992:62).