Construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal

Gateway №19 - output channel to the White Sea

Official: White Sea-Baltic Canal, the canal that connects the White Sea with Lake Onega. Channel originates from the village Povenets on Lake Onega and rises 7 steps to watershed pond (1-7 gateways southern slope). From 8th gateway of the northern slopes of the channel, which includes 12 steps (8-19 gateways) with large lake-like pools of (Matkoozero, Vygozero et al.). In Belomorsk channel goes into the White Sea. At BBK has 19 locks, 15 dams, 49 dams, 12 floodgates. White Sea-Baltic Canal, commissioned 20 June 1933 Channel united waterways north-west, and then the central parts of the USSR with navigable rivers White Sea basin - the Northern Dvina, Onega, Mezen. Commissioning of the channel would eliminate the need for delivery of natural resources of the Kola Peninsula and Karelia to the recycling station far circuitous route bypassing the Scandinavian Peninsula. The total length of 227 km channel. The forest is in the case. And the construction of the channel and the local "wooden" road and the same "train»



Mechanization in the construction

Cartage



Homemade dump



And as the main type of equipment - car



A built - they are. And not Komsomol members, and volunteers ...



Locals. Fill up the brigade "kanaloarmeytsev" they could without difficulty. In one word, and sometimes did not even say. Yes, there is still much for that ...



Sometimes the construction bosses were coming. Like them inspired ideas construction of world communism, people differ from those of builders' real bright future ».



"No bullshit and ammonal, we do not build the channel!" - Said "kanaloarmeytsy." If the plan is burned and terms disrupted, the situation could be corrected by announcing the next storm. This means that instead of 14 hours of the day all the necessary work 20 and, of course, no output.



In a bright future as a cruiserweight present, funds were not walking. In the taiga still can not buy anything, and soup at the very least give sometimes. What else do you want? Diploma on the wall gang "workers of communist labor».



Meanwhile impassable taiga thicket began to thin



And then another and digging from dawn to dusk



Until it becomes so



And then build



Until it becomes like this





No force, no wheeled wheelbarrow hand, not a hand holding a shovel? Brass Band will play the "Internationale", morale rises and forth, once labor fight, infinite, as a way to "bright future».



Time (a couple of hundred lives per 1 sq. Km of the canal)



Two (a couple of hundred or so)



And ready!



And sail on the waterways of the country Soviet ships!





And now see the outlines of the future once the pride of Stalin's five-year plan!