Volga-Baltic Canal
The Volga-Baltic Canal , also called the Volga-Baltic Canal , in north-western Russia is part of the waterway from the Caspian Sea to the Baltic Sea or the White Sea . It connects the Volga with the Neva (Russia, Northeast Europe ).
The waterway begins at Tscherepowez on the Rybinsk reservoir and leads - initially in the course of the Scheksna - towards the White Lake (Ozero Beloje). Further north leads Volga-Baltic Waterway toward Lake Onega , he under the Onegakanals happened - again in the south. After bypassing the lake, it runs west to Lake Ladoga , bypassing it via the Ladoga Canal, which runs past the south bank . West of the lake goes Volga-Baltic Waterway in Schlüsselburg in the Neva over, reaching over St Petersburg , the Baltic Sea .
With the construction of a canal system was already in the 18th century under Peter I started. The largest city on the canal is on the north bank of the Rybinsk reservoir lying Cherepovets .
The White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal branches off to the north from Lake Onega and leads through Lake Wyg to the White Sea .
literature
- A. Gorkin and others: Geografija Rossii: Enziklopeditscheski slowar . Bolschaja Rossijskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1997, ISBN 5-85270-276-5 , p. 115. (Russian)
- G. Sudakow and others: Vologodskaja enziklopedija . Rus, Vologda 2006, ISBN 5-87822-305-8 , p. 108. (Russian)