Kovylkino is a town in the Republic of Mordovia, Russia, located 116km southwest of Saransk on the left bank of the Moksha River (a tributary of the Oka). Population:HistoryTown status was granted to it in 1960.Administrative and municipal statusWithin the framework of administrative divisions, Kovylkino serves as the administrative center of Kovylkinsky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is, together with the settlement of Sosnovy Bor, incorporated separately as the town of republic significance of Kovylkino—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the town of republic significance of Kovylkino is incorporated within Kovylkinsky Municipal District as Kovylkino Urban Settlement.Factory JSC "Kirpich silikatnyi" JSC "KEMF"