The White Sea–Baltic Canal 1933 - 2017
Years. Events. People
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translation: The White Sea–Baltic Canal 1933 - 2017 - Years. Events. People
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Petrozavodsk
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The book may be considered the continuation of the book “Karelian Golgotha: how the White Sea–Baltic Canal was built” written by the same author and published in 2016. The White Sea–Baltic Canal, often abbreviated to White Sea Canal (Belomorkanal) is a ship canal in Russia opened on 2 August 1933. It connects the White Sea, in the Arctic Ocean, with Lake Onega, which is further connected to the Baltic Sea. The canal was constructed by forced labor of gulag inmates. Beginning and ending with a labor force of 126,000, between 12,000 and 240,000 laborers died according to official records, and accounts in the works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
