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Why did barge haulers drag the ship along the shore, although they could walk along the deck?

Barge haulers did not have to walk along the shore to do their job. There were embroidered structures, where barge haulers walked along the deck, pulling the ship with a rope to an anchor brought in advance upstream. However, the delivery of anchors was too burdensome, so barge haulers still preferred the traditional move. In the 19th century, barge shipping on the Volga was partially replaced by horse navigation, when horses moved along the deck and did the work. And Ivan Kulibin invented and tested a waterway - a ship pulled to the anchor due to the rotation of the wheels by the very course of the river, but due to the high cost, the project was not widely used.

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