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Buzuluk (Russian: Бузулу́к) is a town in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, located on the Samara, Buzuluk, and Domashka Rivers 246 km north-west of Orenburg. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages The classification system of the types of inhabited localities in Russia, the former Soviet Union, and some other post-Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared Orenburg Oblast (Оренбу́ргская о́бласть Orenburgskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an Oblast) Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending The Samara (Сама́ра is a river in Russia, left Tributary of Volga. Orenburg (Оренбу́рг is a city on the Ural River and the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast in the Volga Federal District Population: 88,500 (2005 est. ), 87,286 (2002 Census); 83,994 (1989 Census). Russian Census of 2002 (Всеросси́йская пе́репись населе́ния 2002 го́да was the first Census of the Russian Federation carried The 1989 Soviet Census was the final and most comprehensive census taken within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

It was founded in 1736 as the fortress of Buzulukskaya (Бузулу́кская) on the Samara River near the source of the Buzuluk River along Russia's southern frontier. Fortifications are Military Constructions and Buildings designed for defense in Warfare Humans have constructed defensive works for It was later moved to its current place near the source of the Domashka River. It was granted town status in 1781.

Buzuluk is famous as the base of the 1st Czechoslovakian Independent Field Battalion - the Czechoslovakian army unit that fought alongside the Red Army during WW II when Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Germans.


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