Buguruslan

Buguruslan (Russian: Бугурусла́н) is a town in Orenburg Oblast, Russia. Population: 53,893 (2002 Census);^[10] 54,097 (1989 Soviet census).^[11]

Buguruslan Бугуруслан
administrative center[1]
Drama theatre in the city
Coat of arms
Location of Buguruslan
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Coordinates: 53°39′30″N 52°26′09″E
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Orenburg Oblast[2]
Founded	1748[3]
Elevation	80 m (260 ft)
• Rank	321st in 2010
Administrative status
• Subordinated to	Town of Buguruslan[2]
• Capital of	Buguruslansky District,[4] Town of Buguruslan[5]
Municipal status
• Urban okrug	Buguruslan Urban Okrug[6]
• Capital of	Buguruslan Urban Okrug, Buguruslansky Municipal District[7]
Time zone	UTC+5 (MSK+2 [8])
Postal code(s)[9]	461630
Dialing code(s)	+7 35352
OKTMO ID	53708000001
Website	bugadmin.orb.ru

History

It was founded at the end of 1748 as a settlement (Buguruslanskaya settlement) ^[12] by Russian peasants and artisans who migrated to the Volga region, on the ancestral lands of the Bashkirs of the Kipchak parish of Nogai Daruga on the right bank of the Bolshoy Kinel River at the confluence of the Turkhanka River.^[13]

In 1781, Sloboda received the status of the county town of Buguruslan, becoming the center of Buguruslan county as part of the Ufa region of the Ufa governorate.^[12]

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Buguruslan serves as the administrative center of Buguruslansky District,^[4] even though it is not a part of it.^[5] As an administrative division, it is, together with six rural localities, incorporated separately as the Town of Buguruslan^[2]—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.^{[citation needed]} As a municipal division, the Town of Buguruslan is incorporated as Buguruslan Urban Okrug.^[6]

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  Buguruslan in the beginning of the 20th century
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  Buguruslan mosque