Buguruslan

Buguruslan was founded at the end of 1748 on the right bank of the Bolshoy Kinel, where the Turkhanka joins it. Russian peasants and artisans who had moved into the Volga region established the sloboda on the hereditary lands of the Bashkirs of the Kipchak district of the Nogai road. In 1781 it became an uyezd town within the Ufa Viceroyalty. The new town thus acquired an administrative role in a region where Bashkir landholding and Russian settlement had met.