reported to the russian emperor that there was such a way out . to the exit through connecting the nyoman and vistulas. and from the twenty-fourth year to the thirty-ninth year , the construction of this facility was carried out, connecting the lakes, beds of existing rivers, only 9 km of canals were artificially dug. in the dense forests there were impenetrable swamps. during construction, 3,700 workers worked simultaneously. prussia, seeing that russian and polish goods were going past prussia and by and by and the treasury there was not replenished, went down sharply. and then the canal was relevant, but nevertheless it worked, it worked, not in such quantities, of course, but these were internal movements of goods, it operated before the first world war, and people already began to take a closer look at what was on the canal beautiful picturesque places, on the canal it is necessary to build campsites, houses, and go rafting. on boats, on motorboats, they had already begun to develop slowly, but the war of 1914 interfered, all the conditions for safe navigation were violated very heavily here, th