Buguruslan

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

History

However, the official year is 1748. This year attracted Russian peasants and artisans in an already existing baschkirisches village. The village's name comes from the Turkic Buguruslan: Arslan is called Lion, Buga bull.

1781 Buguruslan was recognized as a city and used as an administrative center of the Buguruslanski Ujesd, which in the 1920s and remained so until the administrative reform. The town developed in the 19th century into a trading center for grain, wax, hides, cattle and wool. According to archival documents Buguruslan had 1843 3.589 inhabitants, of which counted as clergy 33 people, 165 officers and officials, merchants 833, SME 1191, 808 farmers, 258 soldiers in 1861 lived in Buguruslan already 6,291 inhabitants. There was a library, a school and a hospital. When connected to the railway network began in 1888 Buguruslan industrial development.

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

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

Buguruslan is today one of the centers of the petroleum industry in the Volga -Urals oil region and location of the oil company Buguruslanneft. There is also a furniture factory, an engineering company, a clothing factory as well as companies from the food industry. As the site of an oil company, the city is relatively affluent.

Traffic

Buguruslan is located on the railway line connecting the cities of Samara and Ufa together. There is also a road links to Busuluk.

Culture, Sightseeing

In Buguruslan there is a theater, a museum of local lore and Mikhail Frunze - Museum. About 30 km from Buguruslan, in the village Aksakovo, is a museum of the writer Sergei Aksakow.

Sons and daughters of the town

Orenburg Oblast Vehicle registration plates of Russia OKATO Bolshoy Kinel River Samara River Raion Uyezd Samara, Russia Buzuluk, Orenburg Oblast Administrative divisions of Orenburg Oblast Gay, Orenburg Oblast Mednogorsk Novotroitsk Orsk Sorochinsk Abdulino Yasny, Orenburg Oblast Sol-Iletsk
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