Incorporated in 1917, Kotlas (61° 15' N, 46° 35' E) is a city of 82,000 people at the southern tip of the Archangel Region, a province in northwestern Russia.  Kotlas lies at the confluence of two, wide, navigable rivers, the Northern Dvina and the Vychegda.  Kotlas has a river port, a shipyard, a rail junction, an airport, a timber-processing combine, a shirt and furniture factory, a brick factory and an electro­mechanical factory. A nearby town has a paper mill complex, the largest in all of the former Soviet Union.  These similarities to Waterville–the northern location, the rivers, the railroad, and the paper and wood products industries–led organizers here to choose Kotlas as the target of their sister city aspirations.

• About the Kotlas Connection
• American Impressions of Kotlas
• History of Kotlas
• Map of the Kotlas Area
• About the Archangel Region
• About the Northern Dvina River
• City of Kotlas Official Web Site
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• Vecherniy Kotlas ("Evening Kotlas")
  A Weekly Newspaper — Translate with Babelfish
• Friends of Russian Orphans
• Kotlas Electromechanical Plant, a Technodinamika Holding (an organization forming the "Rostec" State Corporation) Company