Bugulma

It was founded in 1736 as a settlement at the confluence of the Bugulma River in the Zai River. Hydronym from the Tatar bechelme "curve, bending, bending." Since 1781, the district city of the Ufa governorship, in 1806 it was assigned to the Orenburg province, in 1851 - the Samara province.

Due to its advantageous location on two important roads from Ufa and Orenburg to Kazan, Bugulma becomes an important trading center. At the annual fairs sold horses, cattle, raw leather, leather products.

With the discovery of large oil fields in the 1950s, Bugulma is the center of the oil-producing region of Tataria.

Plants: mechanical, electrical equipment, "Nefteavtomatika", brick, reinforced concrete products, repair and mechanical, porcelain. Furniture factory. Building structures. "Tatneftegeophysics."

Food industry: meat, dairy, brewing and liquor and vodka factories, etc.

In Bugulma district grow wheat, barley, oats, buckwheat, peas, rye, forage herbs. Breed cattle, pigs, sheep, horses, poultry. Cell animal husbandry (mink, nutria, fox, fox). Beekeeping.

Deposits of bitumen, construction sand, clay, limestone, dolomite.