Buzuluk

a city in Orenburg Oblast, RSFSR, located on the left bank of the Samara River (tributary of the Volga) near its confluence with the Buzuluk River. Buzuluk has a railroad station on the Kuibyshev-Orenburg line. Population, 65, 000 (1969). Industry includes heavy machine building (drilling, rolling, and other equipment), the production of parts and the repair of agricultural machinery, flour milling, garment manufacture, glove manufacture, and leather haberdashery. Buzuluk has technicums for industrial teacher-training, construction, hydrotechnical melioration, forestry, and finance and a medical school and a pedagogical school. There is a museum of local lore. Buzuluk arose as a fortress in 1736; it has been a city since 1781. In the surrounding region there is petroleum extraction, grain agriculture, and livestock raising.

a river in Volgograd Oblast, RSFSR; a left tributary of the Khoper River. Length, 314 km; area of basin, 9, 510 sq km. The Buzuluk rises in the western part of the Volga Upland and flows in a broad valley. It is fed by snow. Its average yearly discharge in the vicinity of the khutor (farmstead) of Bol’shoi Luk’ianovskii is 12.5 cu m per sec. The river sometimes runs dry in the upper reaches and is partly used for irrigation. There are more than 600 lakes in the basin of the Buzuluk. The town of Novoanninskii is located on the Buzuluk.

a river in the southwestern part of Orenburg Oblast, RSFSR; a left tributary of the Samara River (Volga basin). Length, 248 km; area of basin, 4, 460 sq km. The Buzuluk rises from the northern slopes of the Obshchii Syrt range. Average year-round discharge of water near the estuary amounts to 7.7 cu m per sec. The city of Buzuluk is located on the estuary.