Give 'em enough latitude...and you get an amazing coincidence

Kotlas is pretty far north, well into the cold, sub-arctic realm.  To be numerically exact, the Sovietskaya hotel where we stayed was 61° 15' 12'' N, which is right here:

As a comparison, that same latitude in North America is just north of Anchorage, Alaska.  Here is 61° 15' 12'' N pictured.

We are looking at Beluga Avenue,  a military housing area associated with Fort Richardson.
The fun and coincidental part is that Teresa spent a year or so living on Beluga Avenue in Anchorage, when her father was in the army.  Same latitude, 40+ years later, and half the world apart.

Anchorage Alaska, Beluga Ave, 1969. Teresa P in olive green (still a fave color), and pal.

Teresa P says: You can take the girl out of the far north, but not the far north out of the girl.  (or at least not all of it...I love the snow and sparse pine tree landscape... but hate the cold)