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      🏛 Monument to the Builders of the Moscow Canal

      Дмитров, Оборонная ул., у набережной Березовца

      A monument to the canal builders: it was dug in 1932–1937 by prisoners of Dmitlag, whose administration was in Dmitrov.

      Monument to the Builders of the Moscow Canal
      © Svetlov Artem · CC BY 3.0
      • The canal route through Dmitrov was approved on 1 June 1932.
      • Up to 196,000 prisoners worked on the site at once; 22,842 deaths were officially recorded in hospitals alone.
      • The future Patriarch Pimen worked for three years on the canal construction as a veterinarian, as a prisoner.
      • In 1997 a 13-metre steel cross was erected at the southern entrance to Dmitrov in memory of the canal builders who died.

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      • Dmitrov: kremlin ramparts, a monastery and the canal

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