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The Saimaa Canal ( Finnish: Saimaan kanava; Swedish: Saima kanal; Russian: Сайменский канал) 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 7 September 1856 ( Old Style: 26 August 1856).
The most important of Finland’s canals, the Saimaa Canal is 43 kilometres long and connects Saimaa to the Gulf of Finland. Nearly half of the Saimaa Canal runs through a land area leased from Russia. The canal’s eight locks are controlled from the remote control centres at Mälkiä and Brusnitchnoe.
Saimaa Canal (Finnish: Saimaan kanava; Swedish: Saima kanal; Russian: Сайменский канал) is a 43-km-long canal connecting the Saimaa lake system to the Baltic Sea. The canal goes through Finnish and Russian territory. Visitors can sail through it on a canal cruise or by their own craft.
Saimaa canal. The Saimaa Canal from Lauritsala ( Lappeenranta) to Vyborg connects Saimaa to the Gulf of Finland. Other canals connect Saimaa to smaller lakes in Eastern Finland and form a network of waterways.
The Saimaa Canal runs from Lake Saimaa to the Gulf of Finland and is the most historically important canal in Finland. The Canal opened in 1856 and significantly influenced the overall industrialisation of Eastern Finland.
The Saimaa Canal was opened originally for traffic in 1856 and it connects nowadays small south-eastern Finnish town Lappeenranta and Russian town Vyborg (about the same size as Lappeenranta). Part of the canal is in Finland and Russia has leased the Russian section for Finns.
The scenic Saimaa Canal winds from Lappeenranta in eastern Finland down to the Baltic Sea and the city of Vyborg, located in the part of Karelia that Finland ceded to the Soviet Union after the Second World War.
