Belomorkanal
Template:Short description Template:About Template:Infobox brand Belomorkanal (Template:Langx) is a Russian brand of papirosa (cigarettes), originally made by the Template:Ill in Leningrad, Soviet Union.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.<ref>"Les Zeks du Canal de la mer Blanche : photographies" by Template:Interlanguage link multi and Nicolas Werth, Institut d'histoire du temps présent, 9 May 2015 Template:In lang</ref><ref>"Russia Marks 80th Anniversary of Opening of Belomorkanal", Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 2 August 2013</ref> Template:Interlanguage link multi, a process engineer, developed the tobacco blend, and Andrey Tarakanov drew the pack design.<ref>Bachurin, Mikhail. "Купите папиросы!" (in Russian). PakkoGraff #6, 2008. pp. 58–61.</ref>
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",<ref>Dineeva, Nelly Rod (December 1999). "Adolescent Narcotism in Russia". Heroin Addiction and Related Clinical Problems. 1 (2). p. 30. Template:ISSN</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>Template:Non-primary source needed
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.<ref name="Kelus">Template:Cite web</ref>Template:Non-primary source needed
Nicolas Rothwell's 2013 novel Belomor takes its name from this cigarette.<ref>"Belomor by Nicolas Rothwell – review" by Alex Clark, The Guardian, 12 December 2013</ref>