| En Name: | Kovylkino |
| Ru Name: | Ковылкино |
| Loc Name1: | Лашма ош |
| Loc Lang1: | Moksha |
| Coordinates: | 54.0403°N 43.9214°W |
| Map Label Position: | top |
| Image Coa: | Coat of Arms of Kovylkino (Mordovia).png |
| Federal Subject: | Republic of Mordovia |
| Federal Subject Ref: | [1] |
| Adm City Jur: | town of republic significance of Kovylkino |
| Adm Ctr Of1: | Kovylkinsky District |
| Adm Ctr Of2: | town of republic significance of Kovylkino |
| Inhabloc Cat: | Town |
| Mun District Jur: | Kovylkinsky Municipal District |
| Mun District Jur Ref: | [2] |
| Urban Settlement Jur: | Kovylkino Urban Settlement |
| Mun Admctr Of1: | Kovylkinsky Municipal District |
| Mun Admctr Of2: | Kovylkino Urban Settlement |
| Pop 2010Census: | 21307 |
| Current Cat Date: | 1960 |
Kovylkino (Russian: Ковы́лкино; Moksha: Лашма ош, Lašma oš) is a town in the Republic of Mordovia, Russia, located 116km (72miles) southwest of Saransk on the left bank of the Moksha River (a tributary of the Oka). Population:
Town status was granted to it in 1960.
Within 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.
There are more than 150 enterprises and organisations, 2 churches and an estate of Insar's monastery, 5 secondary schools, a children's summer camp "Ryzhik", a children's sanatorium "Sosnoviy Bor" in Kovylkino today.There also are a creamery, an electromechanical factory, an affiliated society of Mordovian State University, a central district hospital, a House of Culture, a Museum of local lore, as well as special schools: a musical one, an arts one, and a sports one.Kovylkinsky Agraria-building college is a local branch of Mordovian State University.
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