Skovorodino
Skovorodino
(until 1938, Rukhlovo), a city and administrative center of Skovorodino Raion, Amur Oblast, RSFSR. Skovorodino is located on the left bank of the Bol’shoi Never River, a tributary of the Amur. It has a railroad station on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, with a branch line that is 68 kilometers long and that leads to Reinovo Station. Skovorodino has rail-transport maintenance facilities, food-processing enterprises, and a permafrost scientific research station. It has held the status of a city since 1927. Skovorodino was renamed in honor of the first chairman of the village soviet, A. N. Skovorodin, who was shot by Japanese interventionists in 1920. [23–1531–]