Baltic Sea Gulf of Riga, and the Bay of Gdańsk. The Baltic Proper is bordered on its northern edge, at the latitude 60°N, by the Åland islands and the Gulf of Bothnia, on its northeastern edge by the Gulf of Finland, on its eastern edge by the Gulf of Riga, and in the west by the Swedish part of the southern Scandinavian Peninsula. The Baltic Sea is connected by artificial waterways to the White Sea via the White Sea Canal and to the German Bight of the North Sea via the Kiel Canal. Administration The Helsinki Convention on the Protection of the
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