Kotlas

city Kotlas Котлас flag coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Arkhangelsk Urban district Kotlas mayor Andrei Bralnin Founded 1890 City since 1917 surface 68  km² population 60,562 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 891 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 80  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81837 Post Code 165300-165313 License Plate 29 OKATO 11 410 Website www.kotlas-city.ru Geographical location Coordinates 61 ° 15 ′  N , 46 ° 39 ′  E Coordinates: 61 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  N , 46 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Arkhangelsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Kotlas landing stage at the beginning of the 20th century

Kotlas ( Russian Ко́тлас ) is a city in the Arkhangelsk Oblast in northern Russia with 60,562 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 482 km southeast of the Oblast capital Arkhangelsk , at the confluence of the Wytschegda in the Northern Dvina . The next largest city is Korjaschma , which is located about 28 km east of Kotlas.

The city of Kotlas is administratively directly subordinate to the Arkhangelsk Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

climate

Kotlas has a cold temperate continental climate . The annual average temperature is 1.6 degrees Celsius. In winter the temperatures are usually between −17 and +1 degrees Celsius, but can also drop to −40 degrees Celsius. In summer the temperatures are usually between 4 and 23 degrees Celsius. The average annual rainfall is around 560 mm. Most precipitation falls in August (65 mm), the least precipitation in March (24 mm).

history

As early as the 14th century, there was a Komi settlement called Pyras on the site of today's Kotlas . Today's Kotlas was created in 1899 by merging three villages at the end of the Perm - Vyatka - Kotlas railway that had been built up to that point. On June 16, 1917, Kotlas received town charter.

From the 1930s onwards, Kotlas was a deportation place for the so-called kulaks . The deportees worked in the forest industry, paper production, and building factories and other infrastructure. It was also an important logistical hub for the transit of other prisoners to other Gulag prison or labor camps .

Kotlas became the center of the newly formed Kotlas Rajon in April 1924. It has been part of Arkhangelsk Oblast since 1937.

Population development

The following overview shows the development of the population of Kotlas.

year	Residents
1911	600
1926	4,000
1939	17,265
1959	52,608
1970	55,661
1979	61,454
1989	68.021
2002	66,647
2010	60,562

Note 1926-2010 census data (1926 rounded)

economy

Kotlas is the third largest industrial center in Arkhangelsk Oblast and an important transport hub in the region. It has an inland port, a railway connection and an airfield.

The most important branches of industry are the wood industry , furniture industry, food industry , consumer goods industry , as well as a brick factory and a shipyard.

Town twinning

• Tarnów ( Poland )
• Bakhchysarai ( Crimea , Ukraine )
• Waterville ( Maine , USA )

Others

At Kotlas is Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strange or: How I learned to love the bomb the Soviet military base, where an American atomic bomb is dropped, causing World War III.

sons and daughters of the town

• Wladimir Kossinski (1945–2011), swimmer
• Vadim Karpov (* 2002), football player

swell

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service of State Statistics of the Russian Federation); Čislennost 'naselenija po municipal'nym obrazovanijam i naselennym punktam Archangel'skoj oblasti, vključaja Neneckij avtonomnyj okru Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 Goda (population number of municipal structure and places the Arkhangelsk including the Autonomous circles Nenets results of the All-Russian census 2010.) Table (Download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of Arkhangelsk Oblast)
2. ↑ http://pogoda.ru.net/climate/22887.htm
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated February 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Vladimir Kosinsky in the database of Sports-Reference (English)

literature

• Pomorskaja ėnciklopedija: Tom 1 Istorija Archangel'skogo Severa . Pomorskij gosudarstvennyj universitet, Arkhangelsk 2001, ISBN 5-88086-147-3 , p. 202

Web links

Commons : Kotlas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City administration website (Russian)
• Kotlas on mojgorod.ru (Russian)