Map of the <b><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Volga-Baltic_Waterway" title="Category:Volga-Baltic Waterway">Volga–Baltic Waterway</a></b> (boxed area).
<dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd><ul><li>And the entire <b><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Volga" title="Category:Volga">Volga River</a></b> — in relation to the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea" class="mw-redirect" title="Caspian Sea">Caspian Sea</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Sea">Black Sea</a> ports.</li>
<li>A 19th century canal/locks system that expedited transport/shipping into/through interior western Imperial Russia to northern Europe (via Baltic) and southern Europe/West Asia (via Black Sea).</li>
<li>The <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> periodically modernized its components/capacities during the 20th century.</li></ul></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl>
The original uploader was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jauntymcd" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:User:Jauntymcd">Jauntymcd</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:">English Wikipedia</a>.
29 August 2006 (original upload date)
Transferred from <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org">en.wikipedia</a></span> to Commons.