The first pub
lication of a scries of photographs taken 70 years ago by an anonymous photogra
pher, probably a convict working in one of the camps of northern Russia.
The images illustrate the kind of technology that was used during the construction
of the first major Stalinist canal connecting the Baltic and the White seas. Besides
the traditional wheelbarrow, conscript laborers worked with such inventions as
a «railroad» made entirely out of wood. The White Sea canal served as a model for
subsequent huge construction projects in Stalinist Russia, where laborers were per
haps similarly inventive and resourceful.
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