Povorino (Russian: Пово́рино) is a town and the administrative center of Povorinsky District in the east of Voronezh Oblast, Russia.

[9] It emerged as a settlement around the eponymous railway station in 1870 and was granted town status in 1954.

[1] As an administrative division, it is incorporated within Povorinsky District as Povorino Urban Settlement.

[4] A junction of railroads and motorways, the town is situated between Tambov and Volgograd on European route E119 from Moscow to Astara, Azerbaijan.

The town was home to Povorino air base during the Cold War.