The construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal and the Moscow-Volga Canal (1932-1937)

Solts AA during a visit to the construction of the White Sea-Baltic channel the summer of 1932.

View of one of the construction sites.

Solts listening to explanations construction managers, the kind of gateway under construction.

Face Soltsy.

Challenge Red Banner of one of the brigades of prisoners-builders.

Types of construction of the canal bed.

GG Yagoda examines one of the construction sites.

channel channel digging by hand, removal of soil and stones on the hand wheelbarrows.

Builder crushes the rock hammer.

Types of one of the channel bed areas.

Berry examines one of the canal's construction sites.

Drop cut down a tree.

Builders crushed stone picks.

Kind of the channel with the new gateway.

The meeting of the commission on acceptance Belomorstroya facilities.

View of the channel (top), runs the ship, the people on the bank greet him.

Builders prisoners with a red banner on the banks of the canal.

Court are on the channel.

The poster with a picture of Stalin Stalin's face.

Steamer "Anokhin" passes through the gateway in July 1933.

KE Voroshilov, Stalin and the Kirov SM on the deck of the ship "Anokhin" while traveling through the channel.

Faces of Stalin, Voroshilov, Kirov.

Type of sailing ship "Anokhin," Voroshilov, Stalin and Kirov on the deck.

A flood in one of the canal's construction sites, the flow of water.

Flooded homes.

Streams of water broke through a temporary dam, bugler blows the alarm.

Builders prisoners ran out of the barracks and run on the wooden flooring with entrenching tools in their hands.

Builders poured manually place to break and throw pieces of wood and stones.

Additional diggers team comes to help builders.

Lighting of work places of emergency Fire burning, people running with shovels to a place of a breakthrough.

People pass each other bags to the ground.

Strengthening the bottom of the bags to the ground, filling breakout space.

Falling tree cut down, builders prisoners sawing wood.

Excavator on the construction of the canal.

Types of one of the buildings under construction in the winter channel.

The construction of the channel in winter conditions.

Types of construction of the canal in the winter.

The chief engineer of the construction Hrustalev NU, his assistant SY Zhuk give orders subordinates.

View of the winter forest.

Builders are being built on the banks of the channel bed.

Types of different channel sections under construction in the winter, working construction equipment.

The builders hammering stone picks.

The soil on the conveyor belt, pouring concrete into the formwork.

View of one of the construction sites.

Work blacksmith shop at work.

Panorama of one of the canal's construction sites.

Rafting on the water building timber for the channel needs, rafters on the logs.

Unloading scaffolding at Beach manually.

IV Stalin, Yezhov NI KE Voroshilov, Molotov VM during a visit to one of the canal's construction sites Moscow-Volga April 22, 1937 listen to the explanation of project managers, the view of one of the dams and the gateway of the gateway.