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Kotlas

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Kotlas

City in Arkhangelsk oblast (region), northwestern Russian Federation; population (2001 est) 65,300. Located 450 km/280 mi southeast of Archangel at the confluence of the Northern Dvina and Vychegda rivers, it is a centre for ship construction and repair, and also has wood-processing and paper industries. Its busy river port and railway junction make Kotlas a major transportation centre. The city grew up around a railhead in the late 19th century, and became a town in 1917.


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llim is one of the largest pulp and paper concerns in Russia and competing ownership claims have led to the fight for control of the Bratsk and Kotlas mills being dubbed the "War in the Woods".
In the summer of 1939 a group of about forty women prisoners, most of them Finnish, set out for the city of Archangel on a paddle steamer from a transit camp called Kotlas.
 
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