Bui
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List of cities in Russia |
Bui ( Russian Буй ) is a city with 25,763 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Kostroma Oblast in Russia .
geography
Bui is located on the Kostroma and Wjoksa rivers . The city is located about 450 km northeast of Moscow and 100 km northeast of the regional capital Kostroma . The closest town is Galitsch 50 km further east.
Bui forms an urban district and is also the administrative center of the Bui Rajons of the same name .
history
The place was founded in 1536 under the rule of the regent Helena Glinskaja as a small wooden fortress, which was supposed to protect the eastern border of Moscow in this area. However, after the Kazan Khanate was taken 16 years later by the troops of Ivan the Terrible , the threat of attack from the east ceased and Bui lost its importance as a base. Nevertheless, the place was badly damaged in the 17th century during the Polish-Lithuanian intervention.
In the 18th century, Bui was mainly known as a relatively poorly populated craft settlement. In 1719 it was assigned to the Kostroma governorate , and in 1778 it was given town status, which was withdrawn from the place from 1796 to 1802.
Bui did not show any significant economic development until 1903, when the railway line Vologda - Vjatka was relocated, at which a train station was built near Bui. Today this route is part of the Trans-Siberian Railway . At the beginning of the 20th century, several smaller factories were built in Bui. However, a large part of the urban infrastructure - including the water pipe, the electricity network and the hospital - was not completed until the 1960s.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 2,624 |
1926 | 9,932 |
1939 | 20,352 |
1959 | 27,221 |
1970 | 29,216 |
1979 | 28,256 |
1989 | 32,701 |
2002 | 27,392 |
2009 | 25,763 |
2014 | 24,531 |
Note: census data
economy
In today's Bui there is chemical industry, wood processing, semiconductor device construction, furniture and food industry. In the Chistyje Bory settlement in the vicinity of Bui, the construction of the Kostroma nuclear power plant has also been planned for a long time .
Buildings
- Annunciation Cathedral ( Blagoveshchensky sobor , 1810, rebuilt)
- Church of the Resurrection ( Zerkow Woskressenija Christowa , 1838)
- Miloslawski House (1902), today a local museum
- Station building with Nikolai Church (1913)
Personalities
The Ukrainian Minister of the Interior (2001-2003) Yuriy Smyrnow was born in Bui in 1948 .
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
- Bui on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
- Guide to Bui and the surrounding area (Russian)