Northern Dvina Canal

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The Northern Dvina Canal is a 64 km long canal in Vologda Oblast in Russia. It connects the Volga-Baltic Waterway to the Northern Dvina River through its tributary, the Sukhona River.

At its western end the Northern Dvina Canal starts at the Sheksna River (a part of the Volga-Baltic Waterway), 10 km south of the town of Kirillov. The canal first runs north towards Kirillov, and then turns northeast through a series of small lakes, before gradually turning towards the southeast. The canal ends up in the northwestern end of Kubenskoye Lake, the source of the Sukhona River.

In the 19th century the canal was known as Alexander of Wurtemberg Canal, named so after the Russian minister of transportation in 1822-1833, Duke Alexander Friedrich of Wurtemberg.^[1]

[edit] See also

• Northern Ekaterininsky Canal