Kovylkino

The oldest settlement on the site of the present town is Voskresenskaya Lashma. The name "lashma" is Mordovian (Mokshan), translated into Russian as "valley", "valley". Founded by the Mordovian-Moksha in 1237 during the invasion of the Mongol-Tatars, the settlement becomes part of the state formed by Batyi "Golden Horde".

Then the village became desolate, and "overgrown" and "abandoned" Lashma lands were given in 1703 to the Tatar prince I.M. Kashayev, who went to the service of the Russian sovereign. The village consisted of 25 houses. In the same 1703 in the Synodal Treasury Office was held on the construction of a new church in the village. With the advent of the church the village is called Voskresenskaya Lashma.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Voskresenskaya Lashma came into the possession of the Russian landowners Arapovs. They were famous people in Russia. The last heir of Voskresenskaya Lashma was Lieutenant-General Ivan Andreevich Arapov. He was married to Alexandra Petrovna Lanskaya, the daughter of N. N. Goncharova-Pushkina-Lanskaya and built mills, a distillery and part of the Ryazan-Kazan railroad in the village. In 1892 rails were laid along the edge of Voskresenskaya Lashma. There appeared a railway station. After that - a turnover depot, the first houses for employees of the station. The settlement began to grow rapidly. Construction of the station made Voskresenskaya Lashma an important transportation center.

In 1919, Arapovo station was renamed Kovylkino, in honor of the railroad commissar Stepan Terentyevich Kovylkin.

Since July 16, 1928 the station settlement Kovylkino becomes the center of the Kovylkino district.

On May 26, 1940, Kovylkino was transformed into a workers' settlement.

On November 3, 1960 by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR workers village was transformed into a town of regional subordination.

Since February 1, 1963 Kovylkino - a city of republican subordination.

Especially intensively developed the city in the 70-80s of the twentieth century. The Moksha hotel, a polyclinic, art schools for hundreds of young musicians and artists, a 650-seat cultural center, a central district library, and a local history museum were built.

In 1999, the Heraldry Commission under the city administration approved the coat of arms of Kovylkino.

At the place of Kovylkin was a Tatar village Voskresenskaya Lashma, populated in the XVII century by free and service people. Translated from Mokshan Lashma - "lowland, ravine." In the XVIII-XIX centuries belonged to the landowners Arapov. At the end of XIX century through Kovylkino held the railroad Ryazan - Kazan. Railway station and depot were opened, the village became the station Arapovo. In 1919 the station was renamed into Kovylkino, in honor of S.T. Kovylkin, a member of the People's Commissariat of Railways. The same year an agitational train "October Revolution" stopped at the station. In the village visited Arapova children Pushkin Maria and Alexander, his granddaughters organized literary evenings, the writer V. Gilyarovsky.