Boguchar

Located on the Boguchar River (tributary of the Don), between the Kalach Hill (in the north-east) and the Don Ridge (in the south-west), 64 km north-east of the Kantemirovka railway station, 343 km south of Voronezh. On the site of the modern city there has long been a village - Boguchar yurt. In 1704 it was known as a Cossack town. In 1716, along the banks of the rivers Tolucheevka and Boguchar (called Bauchar or Bowchar) were settled 200 Circassians (Cossacks-maloros by origin) of the Ostrog regiment, formed Boguchar Sloboda. Later, the name of the river turns into Boguchar (now Bogucharka). From the hydronym in the form of Boguchar received the name of the city. Considering the initial version of Bowchar, we can assume the basis of the hydronym butch, bouchalo, that in the Voronezh sayings "a deep pit at the bottom of the river, a whirlpool on the river". In 1717 several hundred Cossacks of the same regiment were relocated. In 1765, the Boguchar Sloboda became part of the Ostrogozhsk province of the Sloboda-Ukrainian province. The county town of Boguchar of the Voronezh governorship since 1779. In 1802 it was included in the Voronezh province. The main occupations of the population were agriculture, the purchase of livestock in the regions of the Don army and sending it to the capital cities. Enterprises of the food industry: flour milling, cereal, butter plant. Production of building materials. In Bogucharsky district, grain crops, sugar beet, sunflower, potatoes, vegetables are grown. Deposits of coal, granite, clay, construction stone.