Skovorodino (Russian: Сковородино́) is a town and the administrative center of Skovorodinsky District of Amur Oblast, Russia, located in the upper stream of the Bolshoy Never River 669 kilometers (416 mi) northwest of Blagoveshchensk, the administrative center of the oblast.

[9] The nearest significant town is Tynda, about 140 kilometers (87 mi) to the north on the Baikal-Amur Mainline.

[citation needed] In 1938, it 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.

[3] There is a myth that it was named after a frying pan factory ordered by Stalin (Russian: сковорода, romanized: skovoroda, lit.

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