The Obvodny Canal is in which European country?
Volga–Don Canal The Eurasia Canal would also require fewer locks than the Volga–Don, as elevations in the Kuma–Manych Depression are lower than the Volga–Don area. Volga–Don Canal Lenin Volga–Don Shipping Canal (, abbreviated ВДСК, "VDSK") is a canal which connects the Volga River and the Don River at their closest points. Opened in 1952, the length of the waterway is , through rivers and reservoirs. The canal forms a part of the Unified Deep Water System of European Russia. Together with the lower Volga and the lower Don, the Volga–Don Canal provides the most direct navigable connection between the Caspian Sea and
Ligovsky Canal water source. The project designer was G. Skornyakov-Pisarev, who also supervised the channel construction. Except the basic function of actuating of fountains, the canal was used as a water main and as a defensive boundary, protecting the capital on the southeast. The project was completed in three years, 1718–21. It is known that the channel crossed at least two bridges, one at Moskovsky Prospekt and one at Znamenskya Square (in a photo). Later at building Obvodny Canal in the beginning 20th century has been constructed Yamskoi Vodoprovodniy Aqueduct, author of the project of the wooden bridge became Russian engineer Ivan