Buguruslan () is a

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History

It was founded at the end of 1748 as a settlement (Buguruslanskaya settlement) 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.''Кульбахтин Н. М.'' Бугурусланская слобода.// Статья в Башкирской энциклопедии.
/ref> 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.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Buguruslan serves as the

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of Buguruslansky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is, together with six rural localities, incorporated separately as the

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of BuguruslanLaw #1370/276-IV-OZ—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the

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. As a municipal division, the Town of Buguruslan is incorporated as Buguruslan Urban Okrug.Law #2367/495-IV-OZ File:Postkarte Buguruslan.jpg, Buguruslan in the beginning of the 20th century File:Orenburg oblast Buguruslan Mosque.jpg, Buguruslan mosque

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External links

Official website of Buguruslan

Buguruslan Business Directory
{{Authority control Cities and towns in Orenburg Oblast Buguruslansky Uyezd