Buguruslan

Located on the southern slopes of the Bugulma-Belebeyevskaya hill, on the Bolshaya Kinel River (Volga basin) near the confluence of the Mochegai River, 3 km from the railway station, 343 km north-west of Orenburg.

It was founded on the right bank of the Great Kinel River as a settlement in 1748 by Russian peasants and artisans who moved to the Volga region, which retained the name of the Bashkir village Buguruslan. The name from Turkic anthroponymies: Arsalan "lion", Buga literally "bull-producer", but in the names is used as a wish of parents to their child of strength and power.

From 1781 the district city of the Ufa governorship, in 1797 it was left behind the state, from 1802 the district city of the Orenburg province, from 1851 in the Samara province.

In the 19th century. a significant center of trade (2 fairs per year) bread, wax, wool, leather. There were soap and wax factories. In 1847, the Pokrovsky Women's Monastery was founded.

Buguruslan is one of the centers of the oil and gas industry of the Volga-Ural oil and gas region (oil was discovered in 1936).

Enterprises of the food industry: mill, meat processing plant, etc. Furniture and clothing factories. Factories: Radiator, Basalt, reinforced concrete products.

In Buguruslan district grow wheat, buckwheat, sunflower, potatoes, onions. They raise cattle, pigs.