Bekovsky District

Bekovsky District (Бе́ковский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Penza Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblast. The area of the district is 1016 km2. Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Bekovo. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 17,531, with the population of Bekovo accounting for 39.6% of that number.

History
The district was established in 1928.