Boguchar

Boguchar stands on the Bogucharka near its confluence with the Don, in a region once used by Cossacks for fishing, hunting and the gathering of wild honey from bees in the river woods. A Don Cossack town was recorded here in the early eighteenth century, but the settlement was subsequently rebuilt as a sloboda amid the Russian government's reorganization of the frontier.

In 1717 Cossacks of the Ostrogozhsk regiment were settled along the Boguchar. They came from a number of established older frontier towns, including Yelets, Zemlyansk and Stary Oskol, and formed a new local Cossack company. The sloboda became a town in 1779. Its history reflects the movement of Cossack families from established fortresses into the valleys closer to the Don.