The Russian canal opened in 1937 that connects the Moskva River with the Volga River is the Moscow Canal.
The waterway runs about 128 kilometres from the Moskva River near Tushino in northwestern Moscow to the Volga near Dubna. It was originally called the Moskva–Volga Canal and received its current name in 1947.
Construction took place from 1932 to 1937 under the Soviet government, using labour from the Dmitlag forced-labour camp. Beyond shipping, the canal helped supply Moscow with water and linked the capital to Russia’s Unified Deep Water System.
A common mix-up is the Volga–Don Canal, which connects the Volga with the Don and opened in 1952. The Moscow Canal is also associated with Moscow’s nickname “port of five seas,” because the wider waterway system provides routes toward the White, Baltic, Caspian, Azov and Black seas.