En Name: | Bekovo |
Ru Name: | Беково |
Coordinates: | 52.465°N 43.71°W |
Map Label Position: | top |
Image Coa: | Coat_of_Arms_of_Bekovo_(Penza_oblast).png |
Federal Subject: | Penza Oblast |
Adm District Jur: | Bekovsky District |
Adm Ctr Of: | Bekovsky District |
Inhabloc Cat: | Urban-type settlement |
Inhabloc Type: | Work settlement |
Mun District Jur: | Bekovsky Municipal District |
Urban Settlement Jur: | Bekovo Urban Settlement |
Mun Admctr Of1: | Bekovsky Municipal District |
Mun Admctr Of2: | Bekovo Urban Settlement |
Pop 2010Census: | 6941 |
Established Date: | Late 17th century |
Current Cat Date: | 1959 |
Bekovo (Russian: Бе́ково) is an urban locality (a work settlement) and the administrative center of Bekovsky District of Penza Oblast, Russia, located to the extreme south of the oblast on the right bank of the Khopyor River, 154km (96miles) from Penza. Population:
It was founded in the late 17th century and renamed in the 18th century after Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky. The inhabitants built the church of St. Nicholas in 1771 and the Church of the Intercession in 1813. Urban-type settlement status was granted to Bekovo in 1959.
It has a railway station on the Tambov-Saratov line, now belonging to the South-Eastern Railway, which opened on February 22, 1874.