Kovylkino (Russian: Ковы́лкино; Moksha: Лашма ош, Lašma oš) is a town in the Republic of Mordovia, Russia, located 116 kilometers (72 mi) southwest of Saransk on the left bank of the Moksha River (a tributary of the Oka).

[1] 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.

[3] 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.