Kotlas

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Coordinates: 61°15′N 46°39′E / 61.25, 46.65

Coat of arms of Kotlas

Kotlas (Russian: Котлас) is a town in the south of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, situated at the confluence of the Northern Dvina and Vychegda Rivers. Population: 60,647 (2002 Census);^[1] 68,021 (1989 Census).^[2] The town has the largest paper mill in Russia^{[citation needed]} and also is a center of the timber industry and an important river port and a railroad center (standing on the railroad connecting central Russia with the Komi Republic).

The place was probably inhabited from the ancient times but got an official town status only by the Provisional Government of Russia on May 3, 1917.

Kotlas is served by Kotlas Airport and is home to Savatiya air base.

1 Gulag
2 Sister cities
3 References
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Since the 1930s Kotlas was a place of deportation of kulaks being a center of the forest industry. It was managed by the Kotlaslag division of Gulag. Later it hosted all possible categories of people repressed during the Stalin era. A particularly significant population of Poles existed in the area, with whole Polish villages resettled here in 1920s and 1930s.

Labor camps existed within the territory of the city until 1953. Besides logging and paper industry, the occupation of inmates were plant, housing, bridge, and railroad construction. Most of camps were unguarded barrack settlements.

In addition Kotlas was a major transit point for deportees transferred further to the North and East, since it was a railroad terminal point.

There is a Kotlas chapter of the Sovest (Conscience) organization, which seeks to preserve the memory of these times and to seek compensation for victims.

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[edit] References

^ Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (2004-05-21). Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек (Population of Russia, its federal districts, federal subjects, districts, urban localities, rural localities—administrative centers, and rural localities with population of over 3,000) (Russian). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года (All-Russia Population Census of 2002). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved on 2007-12-13.
^ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров. (All Union Population Census of 1989. Present population of union and autonomous republics, autonomous oblasts and okrugs, krais, oblasts, districts, urban settlements, and villages serving as district administrative centers.) (Russian). Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года (All-Union Population Census of 1989). Demoscope Weekly (website of the Institute of Demographics of the State University—Higher School of Economics (1989). Retrieved on 2007-12-13.

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v • d • e Cities and towns in Arkhangelsk Oblast

Administrative center: Arkhangelsk

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