30,929 inhabitants identifying as Yatviags.

20th century

In the 1980s, a group of intellectuals led by Nikolai Shelyagovich emerged, which created the public-cultural association "Polesie" ???????? in April 1988. Its goals were the revival of the Western Polesie language, recognition of the local residents of as a national minority and a national and cultural autonomy of Western Polesie. The group claimed that the residents of West Polesia

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