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Seldyanoy Canal

Categories / City Topography/Waterways and Currents/Canals

SELDYANOY CANAL was dug on Gutuyevsky Island from the Ekaterinhofka River in 1827-38 after the catastrophic flood of 1824 (the soil was used to extend the territory). It was 450 meters long with a 200 meters deviation in the middle. In 1901, the Seldyanoy Canal was widened almost to the Olkhovka River. A part of the Canal was later filled up and the remaining 100 meters section was included in the Sea Commercial Port. Its name eventually disappeared from the Petersburg vocabulary. The 420 meters long New Canal was laid next to the former Seldyanoy Canal in the end of the 20th century.

Y. P. Seliverstov.