There are Vertunovskaya railway station with station-house (Open JSC Russian Railways, Pochtovaya st.), a post office (office of Federal state unitary enterprise "Russian Post", Pochtovaya st., 88), telegraph, telephone, first-aid and obstetric point, ambulance station attached to railway station, secondary school (municipal educational institution Sosnovka secondary comprehensive school, муниципальное образовательное учреждение средняя общеобразовательная школа с. Сосновка, Shkol'naya st., 1) with 132 pupils in 2015, library, five shops, railway club, a branch of Open JSC Sberbank of Russia, a monument to soldiers who perished in the Second World War.
Bekovo–Sosnovka–Varvarino asphalt route of a regional significance passes through the territory of Sosnovskiy Selsoviet.
Центральная усадьба, 6, с. Сосновка, Бековский район, Пензенская область, Россия, 442950).
Since 2014 the head of Sosnovskiy Selsoviet administration is Vyacheslav Anatol'yevich Markin (Russian: Вячеслав Анатольевич Маркин).
Sosnovka is located in South-Western part of Bekovsky District in Penza Oblast, 700 kilometers (430 mi) south-east of Moscow, 195 kilometers (121 mi) south-west of Penza (administrative center of the oblast) and 13 kilometers (8.1 mi) south-west of Bekovo (administrative center of the district) along Vertunovka – Bekovo railway branch.
The selo is located in the Western part of the Volga Upland, in the zone forest steppe terrestrial ecosystem, in the first agroclimatic area of the oblast, which is characterized by enough moistening at hydrothermic coefficient 1.0 – 1.1.
There are a Bronze Age matted burial mound height 2.5 meters (8 ft 2 in) in 1.5 kilometers (0.93 mi) to the West from the selo; and a Bronze Age ploughed up burial ground of three mounds in 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) South-West from the selo.
According to local legend, the name of the selo came from a large lake surrounded by pine trees.
Three settlements were founded on the place of present-day selo in the early to the middle of the 18th century, before 1721: Peasants came from Nizhny Lomov, Penza, Shatsk, Moscow, Saransk, Yaroslavl, Simbirsk districts (uyezds).
In 1780 these settlements were included in Serdobsk District (Uyezd) of Saratov Governorate (Guberniya).
According to the map of General Land Surveying of 1790 Two settlements were situated on this place in the late of the 18th century: In 1795 selo Troitskoye, or Sosnovka consisted of three parts: In 1811 one part of the selo was inhabited by state peasants (677 "census souls"), another part by praedial serf of general-major Sergey Fyodorovich Golitzyn (89 "census souls" on 586 desyatinas[13] and of princes Ivan Andreyevich и Nikonor Andreyevich Divletkildeyevy (152 "census souls" on 1219 desyatinas).
Prior to the Abolition of Serfdom (1861) one part of selo Troitskoye belonged to prince N. N. Divlet-Kil'deyev.
Up to collectivization (1928—1937) peasant community divide into three associations ("societies"): By the end of the 19th century were made new streets.
There were water and wind mills, well-developed animal husbandry, pottery and tanning industry in Bekovo region, and the waterway on the Khopyor River.
Landowners and industrialists Ustinovs, who owned many lands in Bekovo region, have vast contacts in trade and industry.
In 1911 in the selo there were 642 farmsteads, one church, schools (see below), post-and-telegraph office, market, machine and tractor station, mill and brickworks.
Many houses started to be built on Latyshovka, Beryozovka ("Birch"), Nakhalovka, Bol'shaya and Soviet streets.
During Second World War about 1091 men were drafted to Soviet Army from Sosnovskiy Selsoviet.
Pupils were also from all of the local primary schools: from the settlements Kryukovka, Vlasovka, Malyonovka, Podsot, Sennoy Ovrag ("Hay Ravine"), Pervoye and Vtoroye Otdeleniye (settlements of the First and the Second branches of Sosnovskiy sovkhoz) – there were many children.
After Second World War shortage of labour was, and women were called to renew destroyed equipment.
In 1923 some inhabitants were to resettled to khutor (hamlet) near the forest, where distillery of Smirnov was situated.
In 1930 was established large Kolkhoz of Kalinin, including Sosnovka and village Sennoy Ovrag.
In 1967 the building of mechanized thrashing floor and warehouses at Tsentral'naya usad'ba ("Central farmstead") st.
State bought Bekovo branch for 800 thousand rubles and it was passed to Company of Ryazan-Ural Railway.
After October Revolution semi-automatic block system was brought in at Vertunovskaya station, railway tracks were reconstructed.
Railroad engineers Aleksandr Nikitovich Shchavelev and Dmitriy Ivanovich Tarantin, who were born in Sosnovka, fell in pursuance of military missions.
All-electric interlocking was introduced (it cancelled work of pointsmen) and radio communication with railroad engineers.
The villagers are busy individual farming on household plots, the service of railways and other communications, and, to a small extent, commercial agriculture and trade.
Official name (Translation) / People's name (Translation) Vladimir Labutin was a graduate of Sosnovka secondary school, who volunteered to the battle-front of the Second World War, and repeated the feat of Alexander Matrosov: he closed embrasure of Nazi bunker by his chest.
Writer and artist Ivan Fyodorovich Sedov was born and lived in Sosnovka.