Skovorodino is a town

Types of settlements in Russia

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 in Amur Oblast

Amur Oblast

Amur Oblast is a federal subject of Russia , situated about east of Moscow on the banks of the Amur and Zeya Rivers. It shares its border with the Sakha Republic in the north, Khabarovsk Krai and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the east, People's Republic of China in the south, and Zabaykalsky...

, Russia

Russia

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. Population: 10,100 (2005 est.); 10,566 (2002 Census

Russian Census (2002)

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); 13,824 (1989 Census

Soviet Census (1989)

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).

Geography

The town is located in the upper stream of the Bolshoy Never River some 669 km northwest of Blagoveshchensk

Blagoveshchensk

Blagoveshchensk is a city and the administrative center of Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: -Early history of the region:The early residents of both sides of the Amur in the region of today's Blagoveshchensk were the Daurs and Duchers...

. The nearest significant town is Tynda

Tynda

Tynda is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia. It is an important railway junction, often referred to as the capital of the BAM. The name is of Evenk origin, tendy translating roughly as on the river bank. Population: -Geography:...

, around 140 km to the north on the Baikal-Amur Mainline.

History

Skovorodino was founded in 1908 as the settlement of Zmeiny during the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway

Trans-Siberian Railway

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. It was then renamed Never-1 after the nearby river. In 1911, the town was once again renamed and became Rukhlovo . It was granted town status in 1927.

In 1938, Rukhlovo was renamed Skovorodino in honor of A. N. Skovorodin (1890–1920), chairman of a local Soviet, who had been killed here during the Russian civil war

Russian Civil War

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. There is a myth that it was named after a frying pan

Frying pan

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 factory ordered by Stalin (frying pan=Сковорода/Skovoroda), which is not correct.

A oil

Oil

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 pipeline is currently under construction from Tayshet

Tayshet

Tayshet is a town and a railroad junction in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. Population: Here the Baikal Amur Mainline begins, branching northeast from the Trans-Siberian Railway...

 north of Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal

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 to Skovorodino; it is intended for oil to be transported from here by rail to the port of Nakhodka

Nakhodka

Nakhodka is a port city in Primorsky Krai, Russia, situated on the Trudny Peninsula jutting into the Nakhodka Bay of the Sea of Japan, about east of Vladivostok...

 on the Pacific, as well as to China

China

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. This is planned as the first section of a pipeline bringing natural gas directly to the Pacific ports, managed by Transneft

Transneft

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. It was opened on December 27 by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.