As we
continued our way to Moscow, we knew we were getting closer to a big city as
there was more life along the river
We were sailing
on the Moscow Canal. Peter the Great envisioned such a canal in the 18th
century to help connect St. Petersburg and Moscow but it took Stalin to make it
happen in the 1930’s. He enlisted several
million prisoners in his Gulag forced-labour camps to dig the 80 mile long
canal. It included 7 concrete dams, 8
earthen dams, 11 locks, 8 hydroelectric stations, 5 pump stations, 15 bridges
and Northern Passenger Terminal (our docking place in Moscow. It was a much greater project than the Suez
or Panama canals and yet only took 5 years to complete.
Here
are a few pictures of what we saw.
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Along the Moscow Canal
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