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Serf hydraulic engineer Stroganovs Bushuyev proposes a project: to increase the occupancy of a factory pond in the city of Ocher, to dig a canal that will connect two rivers: Ocher and Cheptsu. The length of the canal was 1.5 kilometers, the width to 100 meters, and the depth to 40 meters. During its construction, 400 thousand cubic meters of land were excavated. Five thousand peasant farms worked tirelessly. in 1814 the work was completed.