in the same year, the king of the polish-lithuanian commonwealth, stanislav august ponitovsky, arrivedested the new waterway, from then on the canal began to be called the royal one. a curious fact, therefore, five were transported to the canal with the help of a paddle steamer and the force of barge haulers from the construction site to sevastopol itself. under displacement 164. the russian empire also contributed to the development of the canal. at the end of the 19th century, a system of locks was built here. formerly a sluice gate. opened manually now everything is automated, this complex colossus starts with a key, just like a motorcycle. the most difficult thing is to decide which head to open, the top or the bottom, although in fact everything is simple, it depends on which side the ship is coming from, and do we need to raise the water level or lower it? well , now we need to equalize the water level in the airlock chamber and the lower vifa. by the way, this is professional slang, this is the name of the lower level of the river. we start the hydraulic drive, open the brake an