Buy, Kostroma Oblast

Bui (Russian Буй ) is a town with 25 763 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in the Kostroma Oblast in Russia.

Geography

Bui is on the rivers Kostroma and Wjoksa. The city is located about 450 km north-east of Moscow and 100 km north-east of the regional center of Kostroma. The nearest town is Galich 50 km to the east.

Bui forms an urban district and is also the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Bui.

History

The town was founded in 1536 under the rule of the regent Helena Glinskaya as a small wooden fortress which should protect the eastern border of Muscovy in this area. However, after the Khanate of Kazan was conquered by the troops of Ivan the Terrible, 16 years later, the danger of attack from the east fell away, and Bui lost its importance as a base. Nevertheless, the town was badly damaged in the 17th century during the Polish- Lithuanian intervention.

In the 18th century Bui was primarily known as a relatively sparsely populated craft settlement. 1719 was attributed to the district of Kostroma, 1778 was granted city status, which had been the place 1796-1802 withdrawn.

A significant economic development had Bui until 1903, when the railway line Vologda - Vyatka was moved, at the close Bui a railway station was built. Today this route is part of the Trans-Siberian railway. Beginning of the 20th century originated in Bui some smaller factories. However, a large part of the urban infrastructure - including the water supply, the power supply and the hospital - only completed in the 1960s.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

In today Bui there are chemical industry, wood processing, semiconductor equipment manufacturing, furniture and food industries. In the settlement Chistye Bory in the vicinity of Bui is also planned for some time of construction of the nuclear power plant Kostroma.

Structures

  • Annunciation Cathedral ( Sobor Blagoveshchensky, 1810, rebuilt )
  • Church of the Resurrection ( Tserkov Woskressenija Christowa, 1838)
  • Miloslavsky House ( 1902), now home to the Museum
  • Station building with Nicholas Church (1913 )
Central Federal District Vehicle registration plates of Russia OKATO Kostroma River Raion Administrative divisions of Kostroma Oblast Manturovo, Kostroma Oblast Sharya Volgorechensk Makaryev Neya (town) Nerekhta, Kostroma Oblast Soligalich
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