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Kotlas

Kotlas

Kotlas really began to develop in the 1930s as the site of a Gulag camp and so unsurprisingly it is not really a tourist destination, apart from the occasional pretty northern-style building and church. However it is an important transport hub in the region and and trains travelling on the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow stop here. From here you can visit Solvychegodsk and Veliky Ustyug.


Basic facts
Name in Russian
Котлас
Status
City-municipality and administrative centre of the Kotlas District of the Arkhangelsk Region
Location
On the River Vychegda
Distance
915km south-east of Arkhangelsk, 975km north-east of Moscow
Time Zone
Moscow Time
Population
60,532 people (2014)
Founded
1890
Official Website
http://www.kotlas-city.ru/