Sonkovo.

- Small town, the administrative center Sonkovskogo District, Tver Region. Is a major railway hub. Population - 4000 cheloek (2010).
The settlement originated in 1870 when the station on the railway line Savelino Bezhetsk-Bologoye. In 1903 the station was renamed Savelino Sonkovo (named after the nearest heathland).
Sonkovo population before the Revolution, engaged in farming and petty trade. The railroad contributed to the development of trade.
In the early years of the Great Patriotic War junction and the village were subjected to raids by the Nazi air force. In a major evacuation center Sonkovo worked. In the early postwar years the village has been completely restored.
From the village Sonkovo linked fate of Vasily Ivanovich Andrianov (where he received a secondary education) - the pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. In 1950, near the train station is set to bust.
In 1945 in the village of an obelisk on a mass grave of Soviet soldiers who died during World War II.
Of the main attractions worth noting Sonkovo old water tower of XIX century, as well as locomotive-monument of Al-766-44.