Buguruslan

city Buguruslan Бугуруслан coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Orenburg Urban district Buguruslan mayor Viktor Nazarov Founded 1748 City since 1781 surface 76  km² population 49,741 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 654 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 80  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35352 Post Code 46163x License Plate 56 OKATO 53 408 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 37 '  N , 52 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 37 '0 "  N , 52 ° 25' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Orenburg Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Buguruslan ( Russian Бугуруслан ) is a middle town on the Bolshoi Kinel River (tributary of the Samara ) in the western Orenburg Oblast in Russia . Buguruslan is located about 350 km northwest of the regional capital Orenburg , southwest of the foothills of the Ural Mountains and is the center of the Rajon of the same name . The city has 49,741 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

history

The official founding year is 1748. In that year Russian farmers and craftsmen moved to an already existing Bashkir village. The name of the village Buguruslan comes from the Turkic languages : Arslan means lion, Buga bull.

Postcard with the view of the city. Early 20th century

In 1781 Buguruslan was recognized as a city and used as the administrative center of the Buguruslanski Ujesd , which it remained until the administrative reform in the 1920s. The city developed into a trading center for grain, wax, hides, cattle and wool in the 19th century. According to archival documents, Buguruslan had 3,589 inhabitants in 1843, 33 of whom were clergy, officers and civil servants 165, merchants 833, middle class 1,191, peasants 808, soldiers 258. In 1861, Buguruslan had 6,291 inhabitants. There was a library, a high school, and a hospital. After the connection to the railway network in 1888, industrial development began in Buguruslan.

In 1934, the city came in the course of administrative reform to Orenburg and became the administrative center of the Rajons Buguruslan. After the oil discovery in the area in 1936, the oil industry developed here.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	12,109
1939	20,872
1959	42,476
1970	49,451
1979	54,360
1989	54.097
2002	53,893
2010	49,741

Note: census data

economy

Buguruslan is now one of the centers of the oil industry in the Volga-Ural oil region and the location of the Buguruslanneft mineral oil company . There is also a furniture factory, a mechanical engineering company, a clothing factory and companies in the food industry. As the location of an oil company, the city is relatively wealthy.

traffic

Buguruslan is on the railway line that connects the cities of Samara and Ufa . There is also a road connection to Buzuluk .

Culture, sights

Mosque in Buguruslan

In Buguruslan there is a theater, a local history museum and a Mikhail Frunze museum. About 30 km from Buguruslan, in the village of Aksakowo, there is a museum of the writer Sergei Aksakov .

sons and daughters of the town

• Vasily Kryuchonkin (1894–1976), Lieutenant General
• Victor Kac (* 1943), mathematician

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)

Web links

Commons : Buguruslan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• On the story of Buguruslan (Russian)
• Buguruslan on mojgorod.ru (Russian)