This digital archive contains interview data with the Karelian minority speakers in Russia. The archive consists of audio files (available in .wav format) containing individual and focus group interviews with the speakers of four different age groups. All interview files were named using a special coding system. Each file name includes: a) a country where the research was conducted; b) the speech community studied; c) the form of an interview; d) the type of the target group; e) the age group and gender; f) the date of the interview (DDMMYEAR). For the full list of files, as well as code values please refer to the descriptions under “ELDIAdata: Metadata”.