Don–Volga Portage (
Russian
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*Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
: ''Волгодонская переволока'', ''Volgodonskaya Perevoloka'') refers to the ancient
trade
Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market.
An early form of trade, barter, saw the direct excha ...
and
military
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route located on the shortest distance (ca. 70 kilometers) between the major rivers
Volga
The Volga (; russian: Во́лга, a=Ru-Волга.ogg, p=ˈvoɫɡə) is the longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga has a length of , and a catchm ...
and
Don
Don, don or DON and variants may refer to:
Places
*County Donegal, Ireland, Chapman code DON
*Don (river), a river in European Russia
*Don River (disambiguation), several other rivers with the name
*Don, Benin, a town in Benin
*Don, Dang, a vill ...
, in today's
Volgograd Oblast
Volgograd Oblast (russian: Волгогра́дская о́бласть, ''Volgogradskaya oblast'') is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia, located in the Volga region of Southern Russia. Its administrative center is Volgograd. The populat ...
. The
portage, where cargo and ships would be drawn over land either manually or by horse-drawn vehicles, was in use from the 1st millennium BCE to 1952 CE, when the
Volga–Don Canal
Lenin Volga–Don Shipping Canal (Russian:Волго-Донской судоходный канал имени, ''В. И. Ленина, Volga-Donskoy soudokhodniy kanal imeni V. I. Lenina'', abbreviated ВДСК, ''VDSK'') is a ship canal in Rus ...
was opened.
Maps
File:Varangian routes.png, Trade routes between the 8th and 11th centuries AD, with the Don Portage controlled by the Khazar fortress Sarkel
Sarkel (or Šarkel, literally ''white house'' in the Khazar language was a large limestone-and-brick fortress in the present-day Rostov Oblast of Russia, on the left bank of the lower Don River.
It was built by the Khazars with Byzantine ass ...
.
File:Nova Absolutaque Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae descriptio (1562).jpg, Volgodonskaya Perevoloka on the map (1562).
File:Fedor chertezh.jpeg, Volgodonskaya Perevoloka on the map (1614).
File:Petrov Val canal.jpg, Channel construction plan (1704).
File:Jomann Imperium Periscum.jpg, Volgodonskaya Perevoloka (designated channel) on the map of Persia (1720s).
File:Map 1857 Saratov and Astrakhan Province.png, Dubovskoy-Kachalin horse-drawn railway on the map (1857).
File:Maps of Don Voisko Oblast Atlas 1871 General Ilyin.png, Volga-Don railway station on the map of the Don Cossacks (1871).
File:VolgoDon Open Street Map 2016.jpg, Volga–Don Canal (2016).
File:Переноска лодки струга русскими промысловиками.jpg, Russian fishermen carrying a strug boat, 16th century.
Portages
Trade routes
Canals in Russia
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