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Moscow

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June 14th 2006
Hello Everyone, We finished our cruise along the Volga Canal that leads to Moscow. It is 128 km. long, has seven railroad bridges, twelve highway bridges, five pumping stations, eight power electric stations, eleven dams and eleven locks. It was built to bring water to Moscow. Get this--built in the 1930's in less than five years. They used convict labour. Many lives were lost. Moscow is no ... read more

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more