Pechora (Russian: Печо́ра; Komi: Печӧра, romanized: Pećöra) is a town in the Komi Republic, Russia, located on the Pechora River, west of and near the northern Ural Mountains.

The area of the town is 28.9 square kilometres (11.2 sq mi).

[2] Pechora was also the site of a Stalin-era gulag that operated from 1932 to 1953, although it was partially emptied in 1941 as many of the inmates were forced into service in the Red Army.

There is a dedicated room at the Pechora museum where they display many of the records and artifacts that were recovered from the gulag.

[10] Within the framework of administrative divisions, the town of Pechora is, together with two urban-type settlement administrative territories (comprising the urban-type settlements of Kozhva and Puteyets and eleven rural localities) and four rural-type settlement administrative territories (comprising seventeen rural localities), incorporated as the town of republic significance of Pechora—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.