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Kotlassiya, Dviviya and Dvinosaurs

Bin 1895-1914 years Kotlas was visited by the famous scientist-paleontologist Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitsky. He came there several times. He made his researches and excavations near the village Efimovskaya of Vollozhma council territory. The remains and bones of prehistoric unknown ground vertebral animals extracted from entrails. One of the animals was called kotlassiya, another – dviviya, the third - dvinosaur, the fourth - Inostrantseviya (in honor of the professor of St. Peterburg university A.A. Inostrantsev, the teacher of V.P. Amalltsky. In the first year of excavations, in 1897, more then ten almost full skeletons were extracted from the ground, and the whole material occupied two carriages
All those researches were very loud sensations in the world of science, because before that the scientists-paleontologists considered such phenomenon to be impossible in the North.

In 1901 V.P. Amalitsky made a big report in Moscow about the excavations of gigantic pan-golins in the north of Russia and exhibited for public a part of the North Dvina collection.

At present some part of the collection of Amalitsky is placed in the paleontology museum of Russian Academy of sciences in Moscow, another part is buried in the yard of this museum. Some part of it in the basement. All these remains are waiting for the new researchers. So, on the emblem of Kotlas district you can see a dinosaur. It means that Kotlas land is keeping many other mysteries.