Business newspaper RBC reported that navigation had been "paralyzed" through the 141-mile White Sea Canal linking the White Sea and Lake Onega in Russia's Karelia region bordering Finland.

Russia's Baltic-Black Sea. ... RUSSIA'S GRAND CANAL. Share full article. Nov. 21, 1901. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from November 21, 1901, Page ...

Many Soviet writers describe the construction in two years of the 240-mile canal from the White Sea to the Baltic. The book aims to show how some twenty thousand prisoners and malcontents were ...

Zhuk, longtime NKVD man, was a top boss on the infamous Baltic-White Sea canal project (1931-33) and the Moscow-Volga (1932-37) canal project—in which thousands of prisoners were worked to death.