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The problem of connecting the two rivers goes back a long way in history. First canal work was done by the Ottoman Turks in 1569. Peter the Great made an unsuccessful attempt to build a canal in the late 17th century. Later on, they would come up with several more projects for connecting these rivers, however, they would never be carried out.

The actual construction of the Volga-Don Canal began before the Great Patriotic War of 1941- 1945, which would interrupt the process. In 1948- 1952Summary of notable events in 1952 . Events January events January 8 West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders. January 24 Sudden heavy snowfall in Algeria. January 24 Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada., the canal was finally built and became an important link of the unified deep-water transportation system of the European part of the USSR.

The Volgda-Don Canal starts at the Sareptsky backwater on the Volga River (south of VolgogradMamayev Kurgan, Volgograd Volgograd (́) (population: 1,012,000), formerly called Tsaritsyn (́) ( 1598 1925) and Stalingrad (́) ( 1925 1961) is a city on the west bank of Volga river in southwestern Volgograd Oblast (province), Northern C) and ends in the Tsimlyanskoye Reservoir of the Don River at the town of Kalach-na-Donu . The canal has 9 one-chamber canal lockA canal lock or navigation lock is a device that lifts or lowers boats, barges or other vessels from one water level to another. Locks used on canals allow the negotiation of hills without recourse to lengthy detours, or the use of tunnels or aqueducts.s on the Volga slope, which can lift ships 88 m high, and 4 canal locks of the same kind on the Don slope, which can lower ships 44 m down. The overall dimensionAbstract algebra Algebra Linear algebra Dimension (from Latin "measured out") is, in essence, the number of degrees of freedom available for movement in a space. In common usage, the dimensions of an object are the measurements that define its shape and ss of the canal locks are smaller than of those on the Volga River, however, they can make way for ships with up to 5,000- tonneA tonne (also called metric tonne is a non- SI unit of mass, accepted for use with SI, defined as: 1 tonne 103 kg ( 106 g). It is approximately equal to 2,204. 62262 pounds. The naming of this unit was far from original because SI advocates derived the na cargo capacity .

The Volga-Don Canal gets its water from the Don River, which is pumped into it by three powerful pumping stationPumping stations are buildings designed to hold pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another. They are necessary for any number of infrastructure systems that many people take for granted, such as removal of sewage. In countries with cs. Its water is also used for irrigation purposes.

Types of cargo that used to be transported from the Don region to the Volga region included coal from Donetsk, mineral building materials , and grain. Types of cargo that used to be transported from the Volga region to the Don region included lumber, pyrites, oil products . Tourist ships traveled both ways.

The Volga-Don Canal, together with the Tsimlyansky water-engineering system (chief architect - Leonid Polyakov ), represent an architectural ensemble , dedicated to the battles for Tsaritsyn during the Russian Civil War and for Stalingrad during the Great Patriotic War.