volgodonsk canal one of the most grandiose offspring of the totalitarian regime, just imagine during earth's crust , 150 million cubic meters of soil or 2.5 million were seized. the author was filled to the brim with earth and that's it. this magnificence was built in an incredible 3 1/2 years. thanks to the prisoners, they say that the builders, exhausted by inhuman labor , managed to hand over a box of matches to comrade stalin himself on the box it was written. victory was not just a rebus word that expressed their demands. the leader must was to decipher the message the dam will be over. if they give an amnesty, stalin deciphered it and sent it to them in response. the same box with the same inscription. now it had to be deciphered in reverse order. an amnesty will be given if the dam is completed. an amnesty. further, in the fifty-second, having reduced the term by 20 years, the prisoners built this rotunda in gratitude for this. this witty legend has a real historical basis, a day of work at a construction site counted as two days of detention and 26,000 people, indeed were rel