Kotelnikovo (Russian: Коте́льниково) is a town and the administrative center of Kotelnikovsky District in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the Kurmoyarsky Aksay River (which flows into the Tsimlyansk Reservoir), 190 kilometers (120 mi) southwest of Volgograd, the administrative center of the oblast.

[8] It was founded in 1897 as a settlement servicing the construction of a railway station of the same name (opened 1899).

[citation needed] During World War II, it served as a base for the German troops of Field Marshal Erich von Manstein during the Battle of Stalingrad.

A Soviet counteroffensive liberated Kotelnikovo on December 29, 1942.

[2] As a municipal division, the town of district significance of Kotelnikovo is incorporated within Kotelnikovsky Municipal District as Kotelnikovskoye Urban Settlement.