• Source: Belomorkanal

Belomorkanal (Russian: Беломорканал) is a Russian brand of papirosa (cigarettes), originally made by the Uritsky tobacco factory in Leningrad, Soviet Union.




History



Belomorkanal was created in 1932 to commemorate the construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal, also known as the Belomorkanal. Vasily Iohanidi, a process engineer, developed the tobacco blend, and Andrey Tarakanov drew the pack design.
Belomorkanal cigarettes are still produced in various post-Soviet republics, most notably in Russia, in Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine), and in Hrodna (Belarus).
Belomorkanal is also used by cannabis users, wherein "emptied cigarettes are then filled with a mixture of tobacco and marijuana for smoking", with the cardboard tube serving as a built-in roach.




Markets


Belomorkanal cigarettes were widely available in the Soviet Union. They are still sold in some post-Soviet states, including Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.




In popular culture


In a 1985 song by Jan Krzysztof Kelus, the name of the cigarettes is compared to Auschwitz Filters due to the fact that many thousands of Gulag prisoners had died during the construction of the canal.
Nicolas Rothwell's 2013 novel Belomor takes its name from this cigarette.




See also


Smoking in Russia
Tobacco smoking




References






External links


Belomorkanal Cigarettes
History of Belomorkanal (in Russian)

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