Sosnóvka (, means Piny Village) is a selo and the administrative center of Sosnovskiy Selsoviet (rural settlement "Sosnovskiy Selsoviet") of Bekovsky District in Penza Oblast, Russia. The selo had 10 peasant (farmer) farms in 1998. It also had 580 farms and 1380 inhabitants at 1 January 2004. it has less than 1000 inhabitants. There are more than 700 households, many of them abandoned. 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. The selo also has a network gasification and centralized water supply. Sosnovka has Vertunovskaya railway station of Tambov–Rtishchevo line of South Eastern Railway. There is also railway communication with Bekovo on Vertunovskaya–Bekovo railway branch (Bekovo branch). Bekovo–Sosnovka–Varvarino asphalt route of a regional significance passes through the territory of Sosnovskiy Selsoviet. Asphalt road of length goes to the selo. Sosnovskiy Selsoviet administration is located in Sosnovka at: Tsentral'naya usad'ba ("Central farmstead") st., 6, s. Sosnovka, Bekovsky District, Penza Oblast, Russia, 442950 (ул. Центральная усадьба, 6, с. Сосновка, Бековский район, Пензенская область, Россия, 442950). The head of Sosnovskiy Selsoviet is delegate of Committee of local self-government of Sosnovskiy Selsoviet Morozova Elena Aleksandrovna. Since 2014 the head of Sosnovskiy Selsoviet administration is Vyacheslav Anatol'yevich Markin (). Geography and climate Sosnovka is located in South-Western part of Bekovsky District in Penza Oblast, south-east of Moscow, south-west of Penza (administrative center of the oblast) and 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. The natural vegetation: forests, meadow drains, bushes, swamp vegetation. The climate is temperate-continental at an average temperature +20°C of June, and −12°C of January. The selo is located in the Khopyor River basin. The distance to the Khopyor is . To the east of the selo