Shkotovo is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...

) and a railway station in Shkotovsky District

Shkotovsky District

Shkotovsky District is an administrative and municipal district of Primorsky Krai, Russia; one of the twenty-two in the krai. It is located in the southern portion of the krai. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the urban locality of Smolyaninovo...

 of Primorsky Krai

Primorsky Krai

Primorsky Krai , informally known as Primorye , is a federal subject of Russia . Primorsky means "maritime" in Russian, hence the region is sometimes referred to as Maritime Province or Maritime Territory. Its administrative center is in the city of Vladivostok...

, Russia

Russia

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It was founded in 1865 as a village at the mouth of the Tsymukhe River (now Shkotovka River

Shkotovka River

Shkotovka River is a river in Primorsky Krai.It is 59 km long, its drainage basin area is 714 square kilometres. It rises in South Sikhote-Alin and flow into Ussuri Bay of Sea of Japan near settlement Shkotovo.It was named after Nikolay Shkot in 1972...

) to Ussuri Bay

Ussuri Bay

Ussuri Bay is a northern east part of Peter the Great Gulf.Its length is 67 km, a wide is 10–55 km, depth is approximately 40 m.Ussuri Bay is a popular recreation area in Primorsky Krai ....

 and was granted urban-type settlement status in 1931. It is named after Nikolay Shkot

Nikolay Shkot

Nikolay Yakovlevich Shkot , was a war veteran of Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War. He was badly wounded in the battle.After the War he commanded corvette America and troopship Yaponets on Far East. The expedition made geographic discoveries at a coast of modern Primorsky Krai and Sakhalin...

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There are a car repair service, a tinned food plant, a dairy factory in Shkotovo.