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The Belomorkanal Cigarette is a new Russian brand of cigarettes that was introduced to commemorate the construction of the white Sea-Baltic canal, abbreviated as a "Belomorkanal" in Russian.
Shortly after the canal was completed, a new Russian cigarette, Belomorkanal, was introduced and became one of the most popular brands in Russia.
Belomorkanal cigarettes are also very popular as pre-rolled papers for marijuana joints, a fashion similar to the North American practice of creating blunts.
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  BrandBelomorkanal - Cigarettes Pedia
BRAND Belomorkanal is a brand of Russian cigarettes that was introduced to commemorate the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal, abbreviated as "Belomorkanal" in Russian language.
Belomorkanal is a cigarette of specific design called papirosa in Russian, to distinguish from usual cigarettes called sigareta.
Belomorkanal is an example of one of the stages in the evolution of cigarettes: it is composed of a hollow cardboard tube extended by a thin cigarette paper tube with tobacco.
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  When Smoking Is Just a 9-to-5 Job
Belomorkanal is a big seller for the Yelets factory, which makes 5 billion papirosi and other cigarettes a year.
Belomorkanal papirosi were launched in 1933 to commemorate the opening of the White Sea-Baltic Sea canal, a project today associated more with the 300,000 gulag prisoners who died building it.
Anatoly Berezhnov, 69, a pensioner and former cowherd from the village of Tishanka, 500 kilometers southeast of Moscow, is a typical Belomorkanal smoker.
www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2000/08/12/003-print.html   (1187 words)

  
  Belomorkanal (cigarette) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Belomorkanal (Cyrillic Беломорканал) is a Soviet brand of cigarettes that was introduced to commemorate the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal, abbreviated as "Belomorkanal" in Russian.
Belomorkanal is an example of one of the stages in the evolution of cigarettes: it is composed of a hollow cardboard tube extended by a thin cigarette paper tube with tobacco.
Belomorkanal cigarettes are also very popular as pre-rolled papers for marijuana joints, a fashion similar to the North American practice of creating blunts.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belomorkanal_(cigarettes)   (253 words)

  
 White Sea-Baltic Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A carefully prepared visit to Belomorkanal hid the worst of the brutality from a group of Russian writers and artists, including Maxim Gorky, Aleksey Tolstoy, Victor Shklovsky, Mikhail Zoshchenko, who compiled a work in praise of the project.
However, it should be noted that Victor Shklovsky visited Belomorkanal on his own and did not travel there with the Writers Brigade organized by Maxim Gorky.
There is a monument for the prisoners killed during the construction at Povenets, and a small memorial in Belomorsk near the entrance of the canal into the White Sea.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_Sea-Baltic_Canal   (646 words)

  
 Belomorkanal
It is a vital link between St. Petersburg (Leningrad) and the White Sea, constructed between 1930 and 1933, mostly by penal labor.
Most of the convicts who survived the Belomorkanal were sent to other penal labor projects, such as the the Moscow-Volga canal.
Besides the pictures, you can find here a longer text in Dutch on the backgrounds of the Belomorkanal and a list of source material related to the Belomorkanal and the GULAG in the collections of the IISH.
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 THE SEDUCTION OF BELOMORKANAL   (Site not responding. Last check: )
"Belomorkanal" or White Sea Canal is the most famous and cheapest brand of papyrosa cigarette in Russia.
This fine tobacco product has been smoked throughout the Soviet period and, despite their declassé image in modern Russia, continue to be enjoyed by many.
As a kind of experiment, then, I decided to create my own glamourous campaign for the inglamorous "Belomorkanal" (although it is not, of course, intended to advocate smoking).
bak.spc.org /colosseum/gillian/papyrosa/page2.html   (132 words)

  
 All Information of Ministry of Information   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Belomorkanal (Cyrillic alphabet Беломорканал) is a Soviet brand of cigarette s that was introduced to commemorate the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal, abbreviated as "Belomorkanal" in Russian language.
In a 1985 song by Jan Krzysztof Kelus the name of the cigarettes is compared to Auschwitz concentration camp Filters due to the fact that up to 100,000 Gulag prisoners had died during the construction of the Canal.
Belomorkanal cigarettes are also very popular as pre-rolled papers for Cannabis joints, a fashion similar to the North American practice of creating Blunt (drug culture).
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 [Intl-tobacco] Smoking Culture in Russia
Topekha insists that the work isn't harmful and doesn't lead to disease because "tobacco leaves the body very quickly." "According to the latest research from the Academy of Medical Science [in Russia], tobacco is useful for your body in certain quantities," he asserts.
"Tar is hazardous, but nicotine is not." Belomorkanal papirosi were launched in 1933 to commemorate the opening of the White Sea-Baltic Sea canal, a project Russians today associate with the 300,000 gulag prisoners who died building it.
Anatoly Berezhnov, 69, a pensioner and former cowherd from the village of Tishanka, 325 miles southeast of Moscow, is a typical Belomorkanal smoker.
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 Footballguystalk > Wikipedia
Belomorkanal (Cyrillic Беломорканал) is a Soviet brand of cigarettes that was introduced to commemorate the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal, abbreviated as "Belomorkanal" in Russian.
Belomorkanal is a cigarette of specific design called papirosa (папироса) in Russian, to distinguish from usual cigarettes called sigareta (сигарета).
Belomorkanal cigarettes are also very popular as pre-rolled papers for marijuana joints, a fashion similar to the North American practice of creating blunts.
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 Belomorkanal cigarettes at Smokinf4Free.com
The Belomorkanal Cigarettes is a new Russian brand of cigarettes, abbreviated as a "Belomorkanal".
This brand was introduced to commemorate the construction of the white Sea-Baltic canal, in Russian.
Belomorkanals are a traditional Russian papirossi cigarette constructed with about 3 to 4 cm of tobacco and a long paper cylinder holder.
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 [Intl-tobacco] Russia: Local Pensioner Suing Cigarette Company (fwd)
Prokopenko says that the cancer, diagnosed two years ago, was the result of smoking Belomorkanal, a non-filtered papirosa cigarette, made by Petro.
Prokopenko's statement of claim against Petro in connection with the injury to his health allegedly caused by smoking Belomorkanal papirosy to be unfounded," he said.
JTI is following the lead of past suits in the United States and elsewhere, which argue for the "personal responsibility" of the smoker - claiming smokers know exactly what they are risking when they voluntarily choose to light up.
lists.essential.org /pipermail/intl-tobacco/2001q2/000447.html   (935 words)

  
 Maxim Gorky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was used for propaganda purposes and often demonstratively flew over the Soviet capital.
In 1933 Gorky edited an infamous book about the Belomorkanal, presented as an example of "successful rehabilitation of the former enemies of proletariat."
With the step-up of Stalinist repressions and especially after the assassination of Sergei Kirov in December 1934, Gorky was placed under unannounced house arrest in his Moscow house.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maksim_Gorky   (1048 words)

  
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A prolific writer with strong views, Likhachev describes how his ideologies caught the attention of the KGB and shortly after joining a furtive club of historians, led to his arrest and confinement within the infamous prison island of Solovky.
He recalls his dramatic and deeply moving story of imprisonment during the Stalin Era and his chance survival during the construction of the pointless Belomorkanal link between the White and Baltic Seas.
Spanning the period from the early twentieth century to perestroika and glasnost, when Mikhail Gorbachov attempted to give political power to Likhachev, this book is a landmark of Russian history and culture written by one of the country’s most prominent intellectuals.
www.osi.hu /ceupress/99/likhacev.html   (195 words)

  
 DISTRACTION   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The songs that are still stuck in my head were "About Love", "Belomorkanal", "Cockroaches" and "Rammshtein".
This album include two live songs ("Fetish Song" and "About Love", probably played when they were drunk...) and three techno/dance remixes of their own songs in the end of the second side ("Belomorkanal", "About Love", "Rammshtein"), and it's damn funny.
This is a band that I think almost anyone could come to enjoy (hehe...), well any one with a strong enough stomache to withstand a mind milkshake that is. The sound quality is not the greatest in some parts, but really, who cares.
student.educ.umu.se /~stvpov99/udt16h02/music/fm.htm   (342 words)

  
 Tobacco Suit Testing Limits of the Law
The suit is the first of its kind to be heard in a Russian court.
Ivan Prokopenko is demanding health and moral damages of $71,500 from Petro, owned by multinational Japan Tobacco International (JTI), for lung cancer which he says was the result of smoking Belomorkanal papirosy - a type of non-filtered cigarette - for 40 years.
Yatsuba said Prokopenko was a heavy smoker of Belomorkanal cigarettes, although he was unable to say how many Prokopenko smoked daily.
www.tobacco.org /news/63328.html?top_only=1   (234 words)

  
 PeterShop > Belomorkanal
Aleksandr Dyumin, Mihail Krug, Mihail Sheleg, Gennadiy Zharov, Mihail Shufutinskij, Efrem Amiramov, Anatoliy Polotno, Lyubov Uspenskaya, Sergey Nagovicyn, Slava Bobkov, Vladimir Vysockij, Belomorkanal, Butyrka, Petlyura, Gruppa M. Kruga "Poputchik", Sibir, Volk, Sergey Dikiy, Asker Sedoj
" Nazvanie gruppy - Belomorkanal uzhe govorit samo za sebya.
Aleksandr Dyumin, Mihail Krug, Andrey Klimnyuk, Yuriy Almazov, Katja Ogonek, Ivan Kuchin, Tatyana Tishinskaya, Krestovyy Tuz, Dalnij Svet, Belomorkanal, Sergej (Trofim) Trofimov, Svetlana Piterskaya
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 Finance Choices - Personal Finance Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: )
'з/к' initially was an acronym standing for "заключённый каналостроитель", "zakliuchyonnyi kanalostroitel'" (incarcerated canal-builder), originating to the Belomorkanal slave workforce members in 1932.
Prisoner labour at the construction of Belomorkanal, 1931—1933
Living and working conditions in the camps varied significantly across time and place, depending, among other things, on the impact of broader events (World War II, countrywide famines and shortages, waves of terror, sudden influx or release of large numbers of prisoners).
www.financechoices.co.uk /personal-finance-wiki.php?title=Gulag   (4485 words)

  
 Stalinist cigarettes made by RJR Reynolds
I have also read that at one time (perhaps still true) fifty percent of all advertising in Ukraine was done by tobacco.
Belomorkanal was a Stalinist project in the nineteen thirties to build a canal in the far north of Russia.
: Belomorkanal was a Stalinist project in the nineteen thirties to build a canal in the far north of Russia.
www.brama.com /survey/messages/48935.html   (1087 words)

  
 Stalin's Heroes   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Stalin used Gorky's new phrase as a counterweight: "There is always a place for exploits in life." As a Marxist, Stalin slightly changed the words first uttered by the apolitical writer: "The Soviet reality should immediately demonstrate to the world community massive exploits rather than individual deeds."
The choice was made in favor of the first Soviet hydro-technical construction, the White Sea-Baltic Canal (Belomorkanal).
Headed by Maxim Gorky, a large group of writers and journalists from all over the world arrived at the river station, where the roof smelled of fresh paint and the moorage of chiseled planks.
www.ukraine-observer.com /articles/216/794   (1570 words)

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