Moscow-Volga (1937)

View of the river fork (from above).

Diagram of the canal (animation).

Star on the spire of the Northern River Terminal.

Views of the Northern River Terminal building, coloring flags.

Passenger ships at the pier, view of the river terminal building (panorama).

People descending the stairs to the pier, panorama of part of the Northern River Terminal building.

Panorama of part of the pier from the terrace of the station building.

Interior of the Northern River Terminal building.

Marble decor and interior wall decoration.

Decorations and moldings on the ceiling and walls of the central hall.

View of the Karamyshevskaya dam.

Landscapes of the canal bed.

Passenger ships sailing, water surface overboard and a breaker at the stern.

River landscapes.

Views of marshy terrain in 1932. Duck near the shore.

Surveyors carry equipment for surveying the terrain for the construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal through a swamp.

Members of the construction headquarters disembark on the shore.

A surveyor at work.

A sign on a pole indicating the axis of the canal and the location of the middle head of the future lock.

The face of a surveyor.

Summer countryside landscape.

Installing another sign, a cart with surveying equipment passes.

The foreman of blasters blows a whistle.

The beginning of blasting operations during the construction of a canal.

A flock of birds flies over the water.

Rural landscapes, flying seagulls.

Blasting operations, blasters give signals.

Blowing up an Orthodox church building that interferes with the construction of a canal.

The collapse of a factory chimney as a result of an explosion.

The blaster gives commands, results of the blasts.

Felling trees on the route of the future canal.

Transportation of wooden residential buildings to a new location.

A column of excavators with shovels passes, led by a brass band.

Uprooting stumps by hand and with the help of caterpillar tractors.

Canal builders march in formation singing.

Cutting and cleaning up the uprooted stumps into the routes of the future canal.

Views of the Dmitrov camp, located within the walls of the monastery.

Signs of the party and Komsomol committees of the Dmitrovlag personnel.

The building of the construction headquarters.

The door of the personnel department of the canal construction.

Registration of engineers for work, candidates fill out questionnaires, answer questions from the employees of the registration group.

A train passes by a small railway station.

Faces of prisoners in the barred windows of passing carriages in 1932. Prisoners disembarking from carriages.

Prisoners lining up.

A column of prisoners under escort moving to Dmitrovsky Correctional Labor Camp.

The camp gates close behind the prisoners.

The camp commander delivers a speech to the prisoners about the construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal and the opportunity to atone for their guilt through shock labor (synchronously and off-camera), faces of the prisoners.

The beginning of the procedure for registering prisoners' admission, prisoners state their last name, article, and criminal record (synchronously).

Prisoner canal builders doing excavation work in 1933. Removing soil in hand wheelbarrows.

The face of a brass band conductor.

A brass band plays during the work, faces of the musicians.

Builders transport soil in wheelbarrows.

Panorama of a part of the canal bed under construction, soil being loaded into truck beds by hand.

Prisoners throw soil with shovels.

Trucks slide down the slope to the bottom of the channel for loading.

The face of an excavator driver.

The excavator bucket removes soil.

Types and operation of a conveyor with buckets for excavating soil.

Panorama of construction work on one of the sections of the canal.

Builders use shovels to remove soil from the slope of moving railway platforms.

Trains for removing soil.

Removal of soil by horse-drawn transport.

Trolleys on the rails of wooden platforms (top).

Excavation of soil with an excavator bucket.

Loading soil with shovels into trolleys on a railway track (top).

Panorama of one of the sections of the canal construction, a steam excavator in operation.

Trucks drive along the road along the channel (top).

Trains for removing soil (panorama).

Panorama of part of the construction site with storage barracks and building materials.

Panorama of wooden structures and scaffolding at one of the sections of the canal construction.

View of the laboratory building.

Operating models of the channel's hydraulic structures in the laboratory, laboratory staff determine the strength and direction of the current.

Operating model of the lock.

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Excavator drivers' faces.

Trucks are getting ready to be loaded.

The face of one of the builders.

Trucks transporting excavated soil and rocks.

Unloading a truck of soil with a water jet.

The foreman is giving signals.

Trucks are being unloaded.

The builders are holding a banner with the record number set by excavator driver Rybalko.

His comrades are congratulating Rybalko on his record.

A flying airship.

Panorama and views of the canal bed and locks under construction (from above).

Earthworks at one of the construction sites (panorama).

A train made up of platforms with soil is passing by.

A banner with a slogan near one of the tents.

Tent of the Field Construction Administration.

One of the engineers is talking on the phone in the tent.

Sleeping places in the tent.

A banner with a commitment from one of the foremen.

Distribution of food to the builders from the field kitchen.

Excavators at the construction of the canal.

The process of constructing reinforcement cages.

Feeding crushed stone using belt conveyors.

Pouring concrete mortar into formwork, view of a section of the conveyor feeding concrete.

Automatic feeding of concrete mortar at various sections of the construction site.

Concrete workers at work.

Panorama of one of the canal’s hydraulic structures in scaffolding.

Panorama of wooden scaffolding during the construction of the Khimki Bridge.

Panorama of a section of the Volga Dam under construction.

Views and panoramas of the construction of locks (above).

Molotov V.M. at the construction of the canal, types of construction, installation of metal structures.

Views of the canal’s hydraulic structures under construction (above).

Panorama and views of the dam, construction work.

Internal views of the hydraulic structures.

The name of the canal above the pipeline.

Khimki Railway Bridge.

Festive decoration of the bridge on the day of the opening of traffic.

A train enters the bridge.

Movement of trains on three tracks of the bridge.

Raising the flag.

Builders watch the explosion of the canal’s cofferdam.

Explosions of the bulkhead, streams of water rush into the canal.

Children's faces.

Faces of builders and OGPU employees, streams of Volga water rush into a new channel, builders on the bank applaud.

Canal builders during a celebration on the occasion of the launch of water, riding on a swing.

A dance duet performs in front of the canal builders, faces of spectators.

Views of the canal's hydraulic structures during concreting, installation of locks and spillways.

Installation of one of the portal cranes.

Installation work.

Panorama of the installed lock gates.

Engineers monitor the process of installing equipment, installation of large-sized propeller pumps.

View of the installed pumps.

A sign on the Yezhov pump.

View of the propeller pump.

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