At the construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal (1937.04)

An excavator at the Moscow-Volga Canal construction site during the night shift.

The face of one of the canal builders.

An excavator boom with a bucket.

Excavation work during the night shift.

A sculptor in his workshop creates a statue to decorate the Northern River Terminal building.

A girl in front of a camera.

Demolition workers leave the site of the future coffer dam explosion.

Streams of water flowing over the dam.

The water rushes into the canal bed, filling it.

Views of the canal banks.

Stalin I.V., Voroshilov K.E., Yezhov N.I., Molotov V.M. during a visit to the canal construction site on April 22, 1937. A view of one of the dams.

Stalin, Voroshilov, and their entourage listen to explanations from the construction managers, a panorama of the lock.

Stalin listens to explanations from the canal construction manager, with Khrushchev N.S. standing behind Stalin.

Canal builders – prisoners and employees of Dmitlag – greet Stalin and wave (panorama).

One of the canal builders at a stand advertising job openings on Soviet construction sites for former prisoners.

A builder holds a certificate for the Moscow-Volga Canal.

A passport is issued to a former prisoner.

A column of canal builders released from prison passes the camp fence to the sound of a brass band.

Faces of those marching in the column.

Blasting operations during canal construction in the spring.

Ice floes and logs floating on the water.

Spring ice drift.