Spassk (Russian: Спасск) is a town and the administrative center of Spassky District in Penza Oblast, Russia.

[9] In 1648, an uncultivated field was discovered in Shatsky Uyezd and was given to a nearby monastery.

[citation needed] In 1779, it was renamed Spassk and made the seat of an uyezd by a decree of Catherine the Great.

[citation needed] In 1925, a communist party conference in the uyezd resolved that the town be renamed Bednodemyanovsk (Беднодемьяновск) in honor of the poet Demyan Bedny.

[citation needed] Bedny himself never visited the town, but was said to maintain a lively correspondence with its inhabitants.