Kotlas
Kotlas (in Russian: Котлас) is a city of the Oblast d' Arkhangelsk, in Russia. Kotlas is located at the Confluent septentrional Dvina and Vychegda, to 482 km in the south-east of Arkhangelsk. Its population rose with: 60647 inhabitants with the census of 2002.
In Kotlas the largest paper mill of Russia is. The city is also a center of the industry of wood and an important river port and railway crossroads on the line connecting central Russia to the République of Komis.
The statute of city was granted to Kotlas, the May 3rd 1917, by the provisional government.
Gulag
From the Thirties, Kotlas was a place of deportation of Koulak S, managed by Kotlaslag, a division of the Gulag. Thereafter, all the possible categories people victims of Stalinist repression were off-set there. Camps of work were within the same limits of the city until in 1953.The prisoners worked in forest industry and the paper mill, but also with the construction of factories, residences, bridges and railways. The majority of the camps were groups of not kept huts.
Kotlas was also an important center of transit for the deportees sent further in north or is, because the city was the terminus of the railroad.
There is, in Kotlas, a section of the organization Sovest (Conscience), which endeavors to preserve the memory of this time and to obtain compensations for the victims.
Population
Twin cities
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