Sievers Canal
| Sievers Canal | |
|---|---|
 Entrance to the Sievers Canal near Rurikowo Gorodishche |
|
| location | Novgorod Oblast ( Russia ) |
| length | 9.3 km |
| Built | 1798-1803 |
| Beginning |
Volkhov ( 58 ° 29 ′ 33 ″ N , 31 ° 17 ′ 49 ″ E, ) |
| The End |
Msta ( 58 ° 28 ′ 16 ″ N , 31 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E ) |
| Descent structures | no |
| Ports | no |
The Sievers channel ( Russian канал Сиверсов , Siwersow channel ) southeast Weliki Novgorod in Russia connects the Wolchow with the MSTA above its mouth in the Ilmensee .
Course and dimensions
The canal begins about seven kilometers above the city of Veliky Novgorod and immediately above the Rurikowo Gorodishche , a little below the outflow of the Volkhov from the Ilmen Lake. It stretches over 9.3 kilometers, almost dead straight, in an east-south-east direction to the Msta tributary of the Ilmensee above its 10-kilometer-long inland delta .
The channel is 2.50 meters deep, the bottom width is 75 meters, the water level is 110 meters. The canal, whose normal level is 18.2 m , has practically no gradient. The construction of locks was not necessary.
Construction and history
The canal was built between 1798 and 1803 on the initiative of the then Novgorod governor Jacob Johann Sievers and was named after him. With the help of the canal, the bypassing of the shallows in the Msta delta in the Ilmensee should be made possible and the route shortened. The canal was part of the existing since the beginning of the 18th century Wyschnewolozker channel system , the Neva and Volkhov in the catchment area of the Baltic Sea with the upper Volga Association and only towards the end of the 19th century in favor of more appropriate, to the east running Marien-channel system (predecessor of the Volga-Baltic Canal ) and the competing railroad lost its importance as a whole.
The Sievers Canal is still of regional importance today as an inland waterway and represents the normal approach to the Msta from the direction of Wolchow: The waterway kilometrage of the Msta begins from the confluence of the canal. For this reason, the canal, whose original bottom width was only 21.3 meters (10 sinks ) and depth at low tide was only 0.71 meters (1 arsin ), was expanded to its current dimensions in the 20th century.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Soviet General Staff Map 1: 100,000. Sheet O-36-51 (edition 1987)
- ↑ List of Inland Waterways of the Russian Federation (Government Ordinance of December 19, 2002, Russian)
- ^ Sievers Canal in Brockhaus-Efron , around 1900
