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
Volga–Don Canal in October 2009
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Volga–Don Railway
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
Volga–Don Canal
…30 million tonnes. The other option—which had greater support from Kazakhstan, which would be either canal's major customer—was to build the so-called Eurasia Canal along a more southerly route in the Kuma–Manych Depression, some of which is the much-shallower but existing Manych Ship Canal. The southern route would…
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.