RUSSIAN CANAL OPENED
♦ —: ROUTE FROM MOSCOW TO THE VOLGA NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN SEAS LINKED (Received May 1, 12.30 a.m.) MOSCOW, April 30. ', The first ship has traversed the new Moscow-Volga canal. The canal took four years to cut and it links up the Baltic and White Seas with the Caspian and Black Seas and the Sea of Azov. The canal, it is reported, also quadruples Moscow's water-supply.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22081, 1 May 1937, Page 15
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