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Moscow Canal

Moscow, Russia · built 1932

The Moscow Canal (́ ́ ́), named the Moskva–Volga Canal until 1947, is a canal in Russia that connects the River Moskva with the Volga. It is located in Moscow itself and in the Moscow Oblast. The canal connects to the Moskva River in Tushino (an area in the north-west of Moscow), from which it runs approximately north to meet the Volga River in the town of Dubna, just upstream of the dam of the Ivankovo Reservoir. The length of the canal is 128.1 kilometres (79.6 mi). It was constructed between 1932 and 1937 by 200,000 gulag prisoners, under direction of the Soviet secret police and Matvei Berman.

Canal data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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