Moscow Canal

Northern River Terminal

In the center of the photo can you see  what looks like the tail of a jet?  Going to have to try to find out what  it is!

This ship is frozen in place, is it a hotel or a casino, do they even have those here. . .?

It looks like an unloading area for cargo ships, but we didn't walk that far this day.

Not sure who this is yet.

In the summer this area is where the cruise ships dock, in the winter we saw snow mobiles, ice fishermen, and cross country skiers using the river.  The Moscow canal was completed in 1937.  It was started hundreds of years earlier, however, by Peter the Great when he returned from the Netherlands in 1698.  His early attempts were unsuccessful, but by the end of his reign hundreds of miles had been made navigable.  Stalin takes the credit, and the blame, for the Moscow Canal, a special gulag was set up to provide the forced labor necessary to complete the canal and the Northern River Port Building.