Mramornyy Shlyuz

in 1903, the engineering council of the Ministry of Railways of Russia for the first time considered the issue of the need to improve the conditions of navigation on the Don and Seversky Donets rivers. The project of locking the Seversky Donets was approved and a decision was made on the need to lock the Don River from the city of Kalach to the mouth of the Seversky Donets River. In 1910, approved by the State Council and the State Duma, Emperor Nicholas II, a law was approved on the release of money from the state treasury for locking. Six waterworks of the same type were built in 1911-1914 on the Seversky Donets. In 1916, large construction work was also carried out on the island of Luchka by prisoners of war (the First World War was with Germany.) A gateway on the island of Luchka (unfinished) was built by Austrians and Germans - prisoners of war

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