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 of camp laborers and emphasize the role of physical labor in reforming them from criminals to productive members of society. Although "The I.V. Stalin White Sea - Baltic Sea Canal" was written after the completion of the canal’s construction, references to the physical labor on the canal are frequently made in the future tense. This serves to locate the project in a distinct, imaginary temporal realm that was unconstrained by time limitations. Indeed, the new understanding of time extended to the ”five in four” slogan which proudly emphasized that projects within Stalin’s Five-Year plan could be completed in four years.