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Belomor: An Account of the Construction of the New Canal Between the White Sea and the Baltic Sea
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Belomor: An Account of the Construction of the New Canal Between the White Sea and the Baltic Sea

Soviet literature
Also known as: “Belomorsko-Baltiyski kanal imeni Stalina: istoriya stroitelstva”(Show More)
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The book "Belomor: An Account of the Construction of the New Canal Between the White Sea and the Baltic Sea" is a work of Soviet literature that chronicles the construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal. This canal system, located in northwestern Russia, connects the White Sea to Lake Onega, and subsequently to the Baltic Sea via the Volga-Baltic Waterway.

Constructed between 1930 and 1933, the canal was largely built using penal labor. The book, with Maxim Gorky as an editor and 34 contributors, was published in 1934. It has been criticized for praising the project and the secret police who oversaw it, despite the tens of thousands of lives lost due to the use of convict labor. The canal itself is 141 miles long and significantly shortens the sea passage between St. Petersburg and Arkhangelsk.12

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