Buguruslan
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Buguruslan
Бугуруслан
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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.
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 |
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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
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
- ↑ 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
- On the story of Buguruslan (Russian)
- Buguruslan on mojgorod.ru (Russian)