Kamyshinka-Ilowlja-Portage

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The Kamyshinka-Ilowlja-Portage was a barrow path that connected Sarepta near Volgograd on the Volga with Ilowlja and thus Sarkel on the Don .

Diodorus mentioned and Ibn Fadlān traveled this tow path ( Diolkos ).

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The Sarkel fortress was built around 830 .

In 1568, Selim II had earthworks carried out for a breakthrough between the Don tributary Ilowlja and the Volga tributary Kamyschinka (near Kamyshin on the 50th parallel) in order to deliver supplies for a storming of Astrakhan .
Johann Christoph von Urbich had a plan for a canal between Don and Ilovlya. In 1894 the watershed was overcome by a railway .

The Volga-Don Canal was dug from 1949 to July 27, 1952.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Canal between the Kamyshinka and Ilawlja. In: Johann Christian Stuckenberg: Description of all navigable and flowable canals dug or projected in the Russian Empire. St. Petersburg 1841, p. 467.
  2. ↑ Communications from the Austrian Geographical Society. Volumes 94-95, 1952, p. 64.

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