Kotlas

Welcome to Kotlas!

Kotlas (Russian: Котлас) is a city in Arkhangelsk Oblast incorporated in 1917. It is located where the Rivers Dvina and Vychegda join. As such, it is the site of an important river port and shipyard. Kotlas is also a major rail junction, it connects central Russia with the Komi Republic.

It is a major paper-making center, with the largest paper mill in Russia. It also has a large timber (logging) industry, with many forested areas surrounding it. Besides a timber industry (paper, logs, pulping, etc.), Kotlas also manufactures shirts, furniture, bricks, and electromechanical items.

Kotlas had a Gulag (labor camp) in the 1930s-1950s, inhabited by deported kulaks and other politically oppressed persons in Russia. Such people were put to work in the timber and paper industry. The Kotlas chapter of the "Sovest" organization keeps alive the memory of the people who suffered under the labor camps here.

Many persons of Polish descent live here. There is an airbase in Kotlas (Savatiya).

Kotlas (Russian: Ко́тлас) is a town in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Northern Dvina and Vychegda Rivers. Population: 60,562 (2010 Census). Kotlas is the third largest town of Arkhangelsk Oblast in terms of population (after Arkhangelsk and Severodvinsk) and an important transport hub.