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The Göta Canal (Swedish: Göta kanal) is a Swedish canal constructed in the early 19th century. The canal is 190 km (120 mi) long, of which 87 km (54 mi) were dug or blasted, with a width varying between 7–14 m (23–46 ft) and a maximum depth of about 3 m (9.8 ft). [2] The speed is limited to 5 knots in the canal. [1]
The Kiel Canal (German: Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, lit. 'North Sea – Baltic Sea Canal', formerly the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal) is a 98-kilometer-long (61 mi) fresh water canal that links the North Sea (Nordsee) to the Baltic Sea (Ostsee). It runs through the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, from Brunsbüttel to the Holtenau district of Kiel. It was ...
A carefully prepared visit in August 1933 to the White Sea–Baltic Canal may have hidden the worst of the brutality from a group of 120 Russian writers and artists, the so-called Writers Brigade, including Maxim Gorky, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Viktor Shklovsky, and Mikhail Zoshchenko, who compiled a work in praise of the project, the 600 ...
The White Sea–Baltic Canal links it through Lake Onega to the Baltic Sea and the major city and port of Saint Petersburg. The Baltic Sea, in turn, is connected by the Volga–Baltic Waterway to the Volga River, Black, Caspian, and Azov seas. The major ports on the White Sea are Arkhangelsk, Belomorsk, Onega, Mezen, Kem, Kandalaksha and Umba.
The term 'canal' is often used to describe both human-made canals and river navigations, whether free-flowing waterways, or those with locks and dams or weirs. List of lists [ edit ]
The Volga–Baltic Waterway (Russian: Волгобалт, romanized: Volgobalt), formerly known as the Mariinsk Canal System (Russian: Мариинская водная система, romanized: Mariinskaya vodnaya sistema), is a series of canals and rivers in Russia which link the Volga with the Baltic Sea via the Neva.
Göta Canal (at Mem near Söderköping) Motala ström (at Norrköping) Nyköpingsån (at Nyköping) Dalälven (at Gävle) Ljusnan (at Söderhamn) Indalsälven (at Sundsvall) Ångermanälven (at Härnösand) Ume älv (at Umeå) Skellefte älv (at Skellefteå) Pite älv (at Piteå) Lule älv (at Luleå) Kalix älv (at Kalix) Torne älv (at ...
This is a list of navigable canals that are at least partially located in Russia.. A map of the White Sea – Baltic Waterway, including the Neva and Svir Rivers and the canal View of the Moyka from the Green Bridge of the Nevsky Prospekt