Fokino

The city's history goes back to 1899The construction of a cement plant near the village of Borovki, which was named "Maltsovsky Portland Cement" after the name of the entrepreneur who founded it, Sergey Maltsov.. In 1929 the settlement at the plant received the status of a working settlement with the name of Cement Plantlater shortened to "Cement".. In 1964 the settlement was transformed into a city Fokino in honor of the revolutionary Ignat Fokin. The former village of Borovka was also included in the city limits.

Since 1969, the village of Šibenec has been included in the town, where the majority of the population currently resides.

Until 2002 it was subordinated to Dyatkovo raion.

Since 2002, Fokino has had the status of an independent municipality - an urban district within the Bryansk Oblast.