beginning of 1933, on behalf of the ogpu , the first photographer of the country of the soviets, alexander rotchinchenko sent to the white sea canal on the channel, he made more than 2,000 pictures along with the channel guide is very. will the ship karl marx also meet on which to celebrate the end of construction will they come to write or is it headed by maxim gorky? it was decided to perpetuate the construction of the canal and glorify it on august 5, 1933, a decree of the central executive committee appears that it is necessary to publish a monograph on the canal under the leadership of the ogpu for this purpose , the best soviet writers go to the canal maxim gorky alexei tolstoy mikhail zoshchenko vera inber. leonid leonov and this collective monograph appears. now this is a bibliographic rarity, the circulation was almost completely withdrawn in 1938. after heinrich yagoda , the head of the canal construction, was repressed, the publication contains queues of the frenkeler construction manager in the port of germany, horses and a lot of data on technological methods on may 18, 1933 during a specia