Eurasia Canal
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The Eurasia Canal is a proposed 700-kilometre-long canal connecting the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea along the Kuma-Manych Depression. Currently, a chain of lakes and reservoirs and the shallow irriga
Kuma-Manych Depression and Manych River from space. Upper left is the eastern tip of the Sea of Azov and lower right is the Caspian Sea. Upper right is the lower Volga and lower left is a reservoir on the Kuban River. Note that the Manych joins the Don River before that river reaches the Sea of Azov.
Volga–Don Canal
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Lenin Volga–Don Shipping Canal is a ship canal in Russia. It connects the Volga and the Don at their closest points. Opened in 1952, its length is 101 km, 45 km of which is through rivers and reservoi
Eurasia Canal
…longest canal in the world after the Grand Canal in China (1776 km long). The canal is intended to provide a shorter route for shipping than the existing Volga–Don Canal system of waterways; it would also require fewer locks (or lower-rise locks) than the Volga-Don route. Manych Ship Canal is the existing canal system…
Volga–Don Canal in October 2009
Sarkel fortress
Petrov Val canal
Volga–Don Railway