Volga Baltic Waterway, Lake Beloye (Vologda Oblast), Russia trip
Volga Baltic Waterway, Lake Beloye (Vologda Oblast), Russia trip
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The Volga–Baltic Waterway, formerly known as the Mariinsk Canal System (Russian: Мариинская водная система), is a series of canals and rivers in Russia which link the Volga River with the Baltic Sea. Its overall length between Cherepovets and Lake Onega is 368 kilometres (229 mi).
Originally constructed in the early 19th century, the system was rebuilt for larger vessels in the 1960s, becoming a part of the Unified Deep Water System of European Russia.
The original name Mariinsky is the credit to Empress Maria Feodorovna, the second wife of Emperor Paul I of Russia.
Volga–Baltic Canal improvement
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In Soviet times, the Mariinsk canal system was constantly improved. Two locks were built on the Svir River (in 1936 and 1952); 3 locks were built on the Sheksna River. Major improvement of the Volga–Baltic Waterway took place in 1960–1964, and the new Volga–Baltic Waterway was opened on 5 June 1964. 39 old wooden locks were replaced with 7 new locks, and one parallel lock was built later in 1995. The locks' limiting dimensions are 210 m long, 17.6 m wide and 4.2 m deep, allowing passage of river-sea ships of up to 5000 tons displacement. Such ships were able to sail directly across the big lakes instead of using the bypass canals. Typical travel time for Cherepovets – Saint Petersburg route decreased to 2.5–3 days from 10–15 days.
The new canal route sometimes follows the route of the old Mariinsk system and sometimes diverges from it. Six of the canal's eight locks are located along 35 km of the northern slope, with a total lift of 80 metres. The only 2 locks (parallel) on the southern slope, with a lift of 13 metres are located near Sheksna on the Sheksna River, 50 km upstream from Cherepovets. The canal route on the northern slope follows the Vytegra River flooded riverbed. The summit pound of the canal between Pakhomovo locks on Vytegra River and Sheksna Reservoir dam is 278 km long. It includes an artificial divide canal (40 km long), Kovzha River, Lake Beloye, and Sheksna River. The route of the southern slope follows the Sheksna River, where it is in the backwater area of Rybinsk Reservoir.
Lake Beloye (Vologda Oblast)
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Lake Beloye is a lake in the northwestern part of Vologda Oblast in Russia. Administratively, the lake is divided between Belozersky District (south) and Vashkinsky District (north) of Vologda Oblast. The town of Belozersk, is located on its coast. In terms of area, Lake Beloye is the second natural lake of Vologda Oblast (behind Lake Onega), and the third lake also behind the Rybinsk Reservoir. It is one of the ten biggest natural lakes in Europe.
Geography Lake Beloye (Vologda Oblast)
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The basin of the lake includes parts of Belozersky, Vashkinsky, Babayevsky, and Vytegorsky Districts of Vologda Oblast, as well as minor areas in Kargopolsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast. Most of the basin lies north of the lake, in the Andoma Hills, and includes smaller lakes, many of them being of glacial origin. These lakes include Lake Kovzhskoye, Lake Kemskoye, Lake Kushtozero, Lake Sholskoye, Lake Druzhinnoye, and, south of Lake Beloye, Lake Lozskoye.
The lake has an approximately round shape with a diameter of 46 kilometres (29 mi). Its area is 1,130 square kilometres (440 sq mi), and the area of its basin is 14,000 square kilometres (5,400 sq mi). Lake Vozhe drains into the Sheksna River, which is a tributary of the Rybinsk Reservoir of the Volga River. The Sheksna flows out of the eastern corner of the lake. The main tributaries of Lake Beloye are the Kovzha, the Kema, and the Megra.
The lake and the Belozersky Canal around it are a part of the Volga–Baltic Waterway. The Belozersky Canal was constructed to connect the Sheksna and the Kovzha Rivers in order to bypass Lake Beloye, where sometimes strong wind occur. The canal follows the southern and the western coasts of the lake.
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Solovetsky Monastery - Russia - UNESCO World Heritage Site
Solovetsky Monastery was founded in 1436 by the monk Zosima, however, monks German (Herman) and Savvatiy (Sabbatius) from Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery lived on the island from 1429 to 1436, and are considered as founders of the monastery as well. Zosima also became the first hegumen of the monastery. After Novgorodian Marfa Boretskaya donated her lands at Kem and Summa to the monastery in 1450, the monastery quickly enlarged its estate, which was situated on the shores of the White Sea and the rivers falling into it.
The monastery in the 1780s.
In the 15th and 16th centuries, Solovetsky Monastery extended its producing and commercial activity, becoming an economic and political center of the White Sea region. Its business activities included saltworks (in the 1660s, it owned 54 of them), seafood production, trapping, fishery, mica works, ironworks, pearl works etc., which engaged a large population in the area. Archmandrites of the monastery were appointed by the tsar himself and the patriarch. Peter the Great visited the Solovetsky Island in 1694.
By the 17th century, Solovetsky Monastery had already had some 350 monks, 600-700 servants, artisans and peasants. In the 1650s and 1660s, the monastery was one of the strongholds of the Raskol. The Solovetsky Monastery Uprising of 1668--1676 was aimed at Nikon's ecclesiastic reform and took on an anti-feudal nature. In 1765, Solovetsky Monastery became stauropegic (from the Greek stauros meaning cross and pegio meaning to affirm), i.e. it subordinated directly to the Synod.
Together with the Sumskoy and Kemsky stockades, Solovetsky Monastery represented an important frontier fortress with dozens of cannons and a strong garrison. In the 16th to 17th centuries, the monastery succeeded a number of times in repelling the attacks of the Livonian Order and the Swedes (in 1571, 1582 and 1611).[citation needed] During the Crimean War, Solovetsky Monastery was attacked by three British ships. After nine hours of shelling on the 6 and 7 July,[vague] the vessels left with nothing. Between the 16th and the early 20th centuries, the monastery was also a place of exile for the opponents of autocracy and official Orthodoxy and a center of Christianization in the north of Russia. The monastery also had a huge library of manuscripts and old books.
The monastery in August 2009.
The pride of the monks was the monastery's garden which had many exotic flora, such as the Tibetan wild roses presented to the monks by Agvan Dorzhiev, a famous lama.
After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Soviet authorities closed down the monastery and incorporated many of the buildings into Solovki prison camp, one of the earliest forced-labor camps of the GULAG during the 1920s and 1930s. The camp was mainly used for cutting trees, and when the trees were gone, the camp was closed. Before the Second World War, a naval cadet school was opened on the island.
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Россия: Кострома / Russia: Kostroma
Прогулка по основным достопримечательностям Костромы (улицы, площади, памятники Ленину и Ивану Сусанину, торговые ряды, церкви, Ипатьевский монастырь) и поездка на кораблике по Волге /
Kostroma is a historic city located at the confluence of the Volga and Kostroma Rivers. It is one of the Golden Ring cities believed to hav ebeen founded in 1152. Its main sights include Ipatiev Monastery, old shopping arcade, a Lenin monument and many buildings dating from the 18th and 19th centuries.
СМОТРИТЕ ТАКЖЕ / SEE ALSO:
Москва: Крутицкое подворье / Moscow: The Krutitsy Metochion
Москва: Юсуповский дворец / Moscow: Yusupov palace
Москва: Новоспасский монастырь/Moscow: Novospassky Monastery
Москва: в районе Чистых прудов /Moscow: Chistye Prudy - an old central district
Греция: Остров Гидра / Greece: Hydra Island
Нью-Йорк с высоты / NYC: Top of the Rock
Теннисный клуб. / Lawn tennis - 1900s
Россия в дореволюционных фотографиях
Теннисный клуб.
Крестовский остров.
Петровский пр., 7 20.
Russia in pre-revolutionary photographs
Tennis club
Krestovsky Island.
Petrovsky prospect, 7, 20.
St. Petersburg
Music:
Lyrical waltz by D. Shostakovich
Krestovsky Island, located in the northern part of the Neva delta, has long attracted the attention of lovers of outdoor activities. In the summer time, St. Petersburg residents came here from the city centre most of them were middle rank officials and artisans.
In 1894, members of the St. Petersburg Yacht Club and athletes who played tennis, decided to establish a ...properly organised tennis club.... To this end a plot of land was rented from Prince KE Beloselsky-Belozersky on Krestovsky Island. Prospective members had to gain the recommendation from two members and their name would be put to a ballot. By 1909 the club had more than 130 members.
The club had 8 sandy areas, oriented so that at any hour of the day there were grounds on which the sun would not hurt the players. The Krestovsky club became the centre of tennis in Russia with international matches being played at tournaments...
The clubhouse with a veranda, had two changing rooms rooms for men, and one ladies' room, with showers under them,. The clubhouse also also housed the chairman's office and the committee room.....
Sarvestan Palace, Iran
We visit the 5th Century AD Sarvestan palace.
Horvat Minnim (Khirbat al-Minya) - an Umayyad-built palace in the eastern Galilee, Israel,
חורבת מנים, הידועה גם בשמה הערבי ח'רבת אל-מִנְיֵה, היא אתר ארכאולוגי השוכן בבקעת גינוסר, דרומית לעין שבע וצפונית לקיבוץ גינוסר, בצפון מערב הכנרת. האתר מכיל ממצאים ממספר תקופות, שהחשוב שבהם הוא ארמון אומיי. האתר ושטח סביב (39.7 דונם סהכ) הוכרז גן לאומי ב-28 בפברואר 2002, אך אינו מוסדר לקבלת מבקרים.
Horvat Minnim is located on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee in the rich Ginnosar Valley. Attention was attracted to Horvat Minnim in the second half of the 1 9th century when scholars and pilgrims began to cross Palestine in search of identifiable biblical sites. Originally, scholars identified Minnim as Capernaum until the discovery of Capernaum farther north and the excavation of the main part of the site of Minnim. In 1932 excavations at Horvat Minnim were begun and continued for five years by German archaeologists. The German archaeologists revealed an almost square building with round corner towers and a semicircular tower in the middle of each wall, except for the eastern wall where there was a monumental domed gateway. Along the exterior walls, the excavation uncovered a mosque, a throne room, and a group of five rooms with mosaic floors with geometric designs. The impressive large courtyard displayed the unique form characteristic of Umayyad palaces of the period. An inscription found in secondary use, which mentioned the name of the Umayyad caliph el-Walid (705-715), dated the palace and the mosque to the Umayyad period. The sounding made in work on the western part of the palace in 1959 established the site's stratigraphy and a second major occupation of Minnim in Mameluke times when there was a major halt on the caravan route from Egypt to Syria. The sounding also uncovered a mosaic floor in the vaulted hall on the west side, indicating the existence of official rooms as well as in the southern parts of the palace. Only a few segments of the floor have been uncovered. Horvat Minnim was built in the Umayyad period in a rich agricultural area and it was probably the palace of a princely landowner. It must certainly be connected with a no-longer extant bathhouse from the Byzantine period, about 200 meters to the northwest
Typical Canal tour in St. Petersburg 0030
My life journey / 0030 / 160614:
A tour with a boat at the rivers and canals of St. Petersburg is a must! Plenty of tours are offered from May to October, whereas a tour during the white nights is the best.
Tours can vary a lot but they are all good. Duration is around 45 to 60 minutes.
A boat can easy be found along the bridges crossing the Nevsky Prospect.
Our tour started in the river Moika and went via the big river Neva to the canal Fontanka and from there via the Krukov Canal back to the Moika River.
Мы идем на Север, а не в Крым! Самостоятельное путешествие на Кольский и Рыбачий - Kola Peninsula
Отчет -
Фильм о самостоятельном путешествии на Север России - Кольский полуостров.
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