Saimaa Canal

The Saimaa Canal (; ; ) is a transportation canal that connects lake Saimaa with the Gulf of Finland near Vyborg, Russia. The canal was built from 1845 to 1856 and opened on September 7, 1856 (August 26 OS). It was overhauled and widened in 1963-1968.A system of inland waterways and canals in the 120 interconnected lakes of the south-central and south-east part of Finland (Finnish Lakeland) are reached through the canal. The length of deep channels in Lake Saimaa (with an authorised draught of 4.2 m or 14 feet) is 814 km (506 miles). The deep channels extend to  Kuopio in Central Finland.
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