Moscow Canal

The Moscow Canal is an outstanding engineering achievement of the 20th century that permanently changed the face of the capital. This large-scale hydraulic structure, stretching 128 kilometers, connected two great rivers—the Volga and the Moskva River—turning Moscow into a port of five seas and solving the critical problem of water supply for the... read more

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Волоколамское шоссе, район Покровское-Стрешнево

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