Dnieper Bug Canal
| Dnieper Bug Canal Дняпроўска-Бугскі канал |
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.jpg) Dnieper Bug Canal |
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| abbreviation | DBK |
| length | 58 km |
| Built | 1775-1784 |
| Beginning | Muchawez |
| The End | Pina |
| Descent structures | 10 |
The Dnepr-Bug Canal (Belarus: Дняпроўска-Бугскі канал; Dnjaproŭska-Buhski Canal ) connects the two Belarusian rivers Mukhavets (a tributary of the Western Bug ) and Pina (tributary of the Pripyat ) with each other and has a length of about 58 kilometers.
location
In addition to the 58 kilometers of the canal, there are another 74 km of the canalized Pina and 64 km of the canalized Mukhavets, so that the total length of the waterway from the Bug to the Pripyat is 196 km. The canal is part of the waterway from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea on the Dnepr-Vistula waterway E-40 Gdansk - Warsaw - Brest - Pinsk - Kiev - Cherson and overcomes the main European watershed .
The canal has ten locks . The most important city on the canal is Kobrin .
history
The canal was built around 1775 at the behest of the Polish King Stanislaus II. August and called Kanał Królewski (King's Canal). From 1837 the canal was expanded and completed between 1846 and 1848. War-related destruction in World War II was restored.
As part of the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (RGW), iron ore was transported from Krivoy Rog via the canal to Brest, from where it was delivered by rail to the metallurgical industry of the GDR ( Eisenhüttenstadt ). After German reunification , these transports decreased considerably (from 7 million t in 1991 to 0.42 million t in 2004).
Today inland navigation on the Dnepr-Bug Canal is interrupted by a weir on the Bug near the border town of Brest. As a result, the canal section in the Muchawez river is in a rather neglected condition. Some of the locks are silted up, and the inland port of Brest can only be reached from the east.
Attempts have recently been made to define the canal as an internationally important class IV inland waterway . In 2003 the Belarusian government adopted an inland and maritime development program to rehabilitate the Dnepr-Bug Canal. In particular, the locks would then have to be renewed in accordance with Class IV standards.
The government of Belarus (see web link) reported on the renovation of four lock dams and one lock, which will allow the passage of ships up to 110 m in length, 12 m in width and 2.2 m in draft. A continuation of the reconstruction in the next few years is expected.
Web links
Individual evidence
52 ° 13 ' N , 24 ° 23' O 52 ° 3 ' N , 25 ° 39' O (Pina, wherein Potapovichi)