Monument Commemorating the Opening of the Onega Canal

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1909 • Volga-Baltic Waterway, Volga, Baltic Waterway

Monument Commemorating the Opening of the Onega Canal, Volga-Baltic Waterway, Volga, Baltic Waterway, 1909

Click or press Enter to enlarge

Monument Commemorating the Opening of the Onega Canal — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Volga-Baltic Waterway, Volga, Baltic Waterway).

Subjects: volga-baltic waterway, obelisks, monuments & memorials, onezhskii canal.

Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.

Original Russian caption: Monument v pamiatʹ otkrytīia Onezhskago kanala, [Rossiĭskaia imperiia].