Kovylkino

Kowylkino (Russian Ковылкино, moksch. Лашма, Laschma ) is a city in the Republic of Mordovia (Russia) with 21 307 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 100 km south-west of the Republic capital Saransk at the Moksha, a right tributary of the opening into the Volga River Oka.

Kowylkino is the Republic of subordinated administratively directly and as the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

In place of the present town originated in the 17th century at the latest, the village Laschma. 1703 came a Tatar prince in possession and was named after this some time Kaschajewo, later Woskressenskaja Laschma. 1892, the railway line Moscow - Rusajewka - Sysran the Moscow - Kazan railway was led by nearby. The station and the resulting order settlement received by a local landowner named Arapowo. Station settlement and ancient village finally fused together, received in 1919 the present name ( after a member of the People's Commissariat of Transport, p Kowylkin ). In 1960 the site of a town.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Sons and daughters of the town

• Roman Rasskasow (* 1979), tourers