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	Volga-Don Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The canal has nine one-chamber canal locks on the Volga slope, which can raise ships 88 m, and four canal locks of the same kind on the Don slope, which can lower ships 44 m.
		The Volga-Don Canal, together with the Tsimlyansky water-engineering system (chief architect - Leonid Polyakov), represent an architectural ensemble, dedicated to the battles for Tsaritsyn during the Russian Civil War and for Stalingrad during the Great Patriotic War.
		Types of cargo that used to be transported from the Don region to the Volga region included coal from Donetsk, mineral building materials, and grain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Volga-Don_Canal (415 words)

	Don River, Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The main city on the river is Rostov on Don, its main tributary the Donets.
		The Don (Дон) is one of the major rivers of Russia.
		The Don was known in the times of the old Scythians as the Tanaïs, and has been a major trading route ever since.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Don_River,_Russia (203 words)

	Volga River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Moscow-Volga Canal, the Volga-Don Canal, and the Mariinsk Canal systems form navigable waterways connecting Moscow to the White Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
		The Volga region is home to a German minority group, the Volga Germans, many of whom were invited to settle in Russia by various czars, such as Peter the Great, as part of a campaign to improve the country by importing skills.
		In ancient historical times the Volga was known as the Atil, Itil or Idil, a Turkic name meaning "long river." The arrival of the Turkics, however, postdates the more remote occupation of the region by Indoeuropeans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Volga_River (824 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Volga @ HighBeam Research
		The Volga's chief tributaries are the Oka, Sura, Vetluga, Kama, and Samara rivers.
		The Volga was known to the ancient Greeks as the Rha, but little was known about the river until the early Middle Ages, when Slavic tribes settled along its upper course, the Bulgars (see Bulgars, Eastern) along its middle course, and the Khazars in the south.
		The Volga has played an important part in the life of the Russian people, and it is characteristically named in Russian folklore "Mother Volga." For centuries it has served as the chief thoroughfare of Russia and as the lifeline of Russian colonization to the east.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Volga&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (780 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Volga
		Volga-Don Canal, artificial waterway, southwestern Russia, linking the lower courses of the Volga and Don rivers.
		Volga, river in western Russia, longest and one of the most important rivers of Europe.
		The Volga River rises northwest of Moscow in the Valday Hills...
	encarta.msn.com /teleport/fromTools/find.asp?brand=elibrary&q1=Volga (95 words)

	Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
		The Volga German Autonomous Republic was formed in 1918 as an autonomous workers' commune of the USSR and made into an autonomous republic in 1924.
		Over half the population were Volga Germans, descendants of colonists from Germany who settled on both banks of the Lower Volga near the town of Pokrovsk-Glazov (later Engels) in the reign of Catherine (II) the Great in the 1760s.
		The republic, however, was never revived, and now forms part of the Saratov oblast (region) of the Russian Federation.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Volga+German+Autonomous+Soviet+Socialist+Republic (203 words)

	azov
		Two canals enter into the sea the Volga-Don Canal and a link to the Caspian Sea through the Manych Canal.
		The main rivers flowing into the sea are the Don and Kuban, they ensure that the waters of the sea are comparatively low in salt and almost fresh in places, they also bring huge volumes of silt into the sea.
		The Sea of Azov is the shallowest sea in the world with an average depth of only 13 metres, where the silt has built up such as the Gulf of Taganrog the average depth is less than 1 metre.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Azov.html (329 words)

	Volga-Don Ship Canal -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Known as Mother Volga, it is a symbol of Russia and a central theme in songs and stories.
		Throughout the world the river is associated with images of the turbulent and colourful Don Cossacks—romanticized in a famous series of novels by the 20th-century Russian writer...
		Canals in The Netherlands as well as in other countries provide both drainage from the lowlands and transportation (see Netherlands, The).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9075667?tocId=9075667 (865 words)

	Visit Siberia Ltd. :: Russia inside :: Cities :: Volgograd
		In 1722 and 1723 the city Peter I and presented it to his wife Ekaterina I. To 1731 Tsaritsyn became the center of the military border line from the Volga to the Don.
		At the beginning of the 17th century Tsaritsyn burned down - and a new settlement was constructed in 1615 on the right bank of the Volga.
		Geografical position: Volgograd, center of Volgograd area, is located on the lower stretch of the River Volga and streches for 100 kilometers on its right bank.
	visitsiberia.com /russia/city.php?id=158 (367 words)

	Trade, Shipping, Volga-Don Canal - Johnson's Russia List 1-10-03
		The canal is getting ready to accept not just Russian, but foreign merchant vessels as well.
		People say that they would not like to lose face when the canal becomes an international shipping route.
		It is connected with the Caspian, the Mediterranean, and the south of Russia, and with the European Union's 9th International [Transport] Corridor.
	www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/7012-16.cfm (311 words)

	VOLGA-DON WATERWAYS: AN UNTAPPED RESOURCE
		The 45-year old Volga-Don Canal, which is in need of extensive modernization, has been able to replace only three of its 18 sets of lock gates in the last four years, and no funds are currently available for more.
		Roughly 350 kilometers upstream from Rostov lies the Volga-Don Canal, a 60 kilometer-long waterway which links the Don and Volga rivers.
		The western anchor of the Volga-Don system is the port of Rostov, located near the mouth of the Don River, and the nearby ports of Azov and Taganrog.
	permanent.access.gpo.gov /lps3997/9802volg.htm (1265 words)

	Volzhskiy, Russia, Pictures
		Volzhskiy, city in southwestern Russia, in Volgograd Oblast, located on the Volga River north of the Volga-Don Canal.
		Volzhskiy was founded in 1951 in connection with the construction of a large hydroelectric station on the Volga River; it became a city in 1954.
		Volzhskiy lies across the Volga from Volgograd, the capital of Volgograd Oblast.
	www.greatestcities.com /Europe/Russia/Volzhskiy_city.html (209 words)

	ESA - Observing the Earth - Securing Our Environment - Wetlands convention
		Volgograd is the major River Volga port and the eastern terminus of the Volga-Don Canal.
		In this image, the Volga -the longest river in Europe with a length of 3700 km- flows south from the top to the centre of the image, then east from the center to the right.
		Urban areas with sparse vegetation, like Volgograd in the western bank of the Volga, are generally visible in yellow-green tones indicating equally high backscatter in HH and HV.
	www.esa.int /esaEO/SEM3Q93VQUD_environment_3.html (260 words)

	Administration of Rostov region
		The beauty of Don nature, the favourable climate, and the closeness of the Don and the Tsemlyank Sea make rest and relaxation in the beneficial places of Volgodonsk tempting and attractive.
		On the banks of the Don and the shore of the Tsemlyansk Sea a real health and fitness complex has been created and continues to develop: holiday homes, guest houses, children’s summer camps, health spas and tourist bases.
		At present work is being carried out on the building of a federally important highway, Morozov-Tsemlyansk-Volgograd, with a bridge crossing over the river Don.
	www.donland.ru /english/content/info.asp?partId=6935&infoId=7452&topicFolderId=7450&topicInfoId=0 (1194 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Developments in the evolving Caspian legal regime: Part 1 of 2
		And indeed it is: by the Volga and Don rivers and the Volga-Don canal, which link it to the Sea of Azov, itself an inlet of the Black Sea.
		However, the Volga-Don canal is not a salt-water channel and would therefore require clarification under international law.
		If the Volga-Don canal acquired international status, then Russia would be required to provide free passage to all Caspian littoral states through it.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/ntc03643.htm (1444 words)

	Kommersant: Keeping It Moving through the Canal
		The Interfax news agency reports that restoration work on the Konstantinovsky hydrosystem of the Volga-Don canal is to be completed by November 23, according to a statement by the Azov-Don State Waterways and Shipping Basin Management agency.
		The canal was closed to traffic on November 1 because of an incident involving the vessel Morskaya Baronessa, belonging to the Alko Co. The ship rammed the gates of a lock after its engine failed, the damaging two 50-ton gates.
		Construction began on the Suez Canal in April 1859, and it was opened on November 17, 1869.
	www.kommersant.com /page.asp?id=523135 (1907 words)

	TRANS-SC3-2003-3E.doc
		There are depth limitations on the lower Don between the town of Kalach and the town of Azov, because of the reduced depth at the sill of Kochetov lock (3.60 metres), and also on the Volga, over the sector Gorodets-Nizhny Novgorod, because of the insufficient depth (3.50 metres) in the lower pond of Gorodets lock.
		The Sulina canal and the Sulina arm are sections of the river Danube which have international status and are open for unrestricted navigation.
		Navigation in the canal is under the operational control of the canal administration in Agigea.
	www.unece.org /trans/doc/2003/sc3/TRANS-SC3-2003-3E.doc (3002 words)

	IWMC.org - Siberian sturgeon in Volga River Caviar?
		Two biological groups were described in the Volga River population of Persian sturgeon -early and late spring, and one group (late spring) in the Ural River population (Artyukhin, 1983).
		Because of removal of spawning sites due to river damming, the natural reproduction of sturgeons occurs mostly in the Volga (about 60%) and Ural (more than 30%) Rivers while southern Caspian sturgeons turned out to be on the verge of extinction.
		The captive breeding of Siberian sturgeon is conducted in small quantities in ponds isolated from natural water bodies, it is under strict control of Glavrybvod and the State Fisheries Committee of Russia that prevents their release or adventitious invasion of the rivers.
	www.iwmc.org /fish/020411-2.htm (499 words)

	CCI: Rostov-on-Don
		The 100-km-long Volga-Don Canal, completed in 1952, links the Don and the Volga Rivers near Volgograd and connects Rostov to five seas, earning it the name, “Gateway to the Caucasus.”
		The city is located on the bank of the Don River, east of the Sea of Azov, which puts it at the crossroads of Ukraine, Russia’s Volga region, Siberia, the northern Caucasus and Transcaucasia.
		1.2 million) is the capital of the Rostov Region and the unofficial center of the Don River area.
	www.ccisf.org /cci_russia/rostov_on_don.htm (332 words)

	Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Photographic Highlights
		The Volga-Don Canal can be seen leaving the river just south of the bend, exiting the view center left.
		This canal, with others in the Moscow region, allows barge traffic to move through the Russian heartland, from the Black Sea to the Baltic at Leningrad.
		The Volga flows south into the view from top right, then southeast from the center to the bottom.
	earth.jsc.nasa.gov /debrief/STS081/top1.htm (581 words)

	May 31 - On this day
		1952 In the USSR, the Volga Don Canal was opened.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/onthisday/0531.html (203 words)

	Volgograd, Russia, Pictures
		It is linked to the Don River by the Volga-Don Canal, constructed between 1950 and 1957.
		Volgograd, an important industrial, commercial, and transshipment center of Russia, is a railroad hub and a major Volga River port.
		Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, city, capital of Volgograd Oblast, southwestern Russia, on the Volga River.
	www.greatestcities.com /Europe/Russia/Volgograd_formerly_Stalingrad_city.html (256 words)

	Moscow
		Navigable waterways, including the Moscow Canal, Moscow River, and Volga-Don Canal, make the port areas of the city directly accessible to shipping from the Baltic, White, Black, and Caspian seas and the Sea of Azov.
		Besides being a port of five seas, and hence one of the world's foremost commercial centers, Moscow is a leading manufacturing city, with factories producing nearly one-sixth of the entire volume of industrial production of the former USSR.
		Railroads and numerous airlines converge on Moscow from all parts of Russia and the other successor states of the USSR.
	www.2747.com /2747/world/city/moscow.htm (282 words)

	Traffic on Russia’s Volga-Don Canal Halted for Weeks After Barge Crash - MONEY - MOSNEWS.COM
		Oil exports from Russia’s Urals producing area have been disrupted after a barge crashed into a lock on the Volga-Don Canal, the Lloyds List reports.
		A dry-load barge crashed into a lock on the canal, leaving 122 vessels and 260,000 tons of oil stranded.
		TNK-BP is continuing to load barges at its canal terminal of Saratov and will use the river system to transport its cargoes to sea terminals.
	www.mosnews.com /money/2004/11/05/bargecrash.shtml (524 words)

	Articles
		Main waterways are the Belomor-Baltic Channel, the Moscow Canal (named after Moscow), the Volga-Don Canal, the Volga-Baltic Waterway.
	www.whererussia.com /common/articles?id=1197 (218 words)

	[About the Plant History] - OJSC "Karacharovsky Mechanical Plant"
		The banks and the sluices of the abuilding Volga-Don canal were beset by sculptures, decorative patterns and bas-reliefs.
		It is practically impossible to find a building in Moscow, whose construction was unassisted by KMZ.
	www.kmzlift.ru /english/about1.html (247 words)

	Russian London / Major Russian waterway paralysed /
		They are unable to use the Volga-Don Canal to move into the Black Sea after a barge hit a huge set of lock gates on the Tsimlyanskoye reservoir.
		Shipping companies have already lost millions of dollars in late or undelivered goods, reports say.
		Dozens of ships and tankers remain stranded on one of Russia's most important waterways following an accident several days ago.
	www.russianlondon.com /print/22682 (209 words)

	AllRefer.com - Azov, Sea of (CIS And Baltic Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		The sea's importance increased with the opening of the Volga–Don Canal; the Manych Canal connects the Sea of Azov with the Caspian Sea.
		The Don and Kuban rivers flow into the sea, supplying it with an abundance of freshwater but also depositing the silt that tends to make the sea more shallow.
		Its chief arms are the Gulf of Taganrog (in the northeast) and the Sivash Sea (in the west), which is nearly isolated from the Sea of Azov by Arabat Tongue, a narrow sandspit.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Azov-Sea.html (293 words)

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