Kiel Canal Kiel Canal The Kiel Canal (, literally "North-[to]-Baltic Sea canal", formerly known as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal) is a long freshwater canal in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The canal was finished in 1895, but later widened, and links the North Sea at Brunsbüttel to the Baltic Sea at Kiel-Holtenau. An average of is saved by using the Kiel Canal instead of going around the Jutland Peninsula. This not only saves time but also avoids storm-prone seas and having to pass through the Sound or Belts. Besides its two sea entrances, the Kiel Canal is linked, at Oldenbüttel, to the navigable River
The I.V. Stalin White Sea – Baltic Sea Canal Sea Canal" and in the United States as "Belomor: An Account of the Construction of the Great Canal Between the White Sea and the Baltic Sea". The original version of the work consists of thirty-five chapters covering both the history of the canal’s construction and personal narratives of the inmates who lived and worked in the labor camps. Together, these accounts were intended to show the power and ability of the state in reforming landscape and people according to its goals. In August 1933, the publishing house History of Factories and Industrial Enterprises editorial board decided to commission a book