Boguchar is a city (since 1779) in the south of the Voronezh region
of Russia. Administrative center of Bogucharsky district. The urban
settlement is formed by the city of Boguchar.
Since 2002, the
city has been included in the list of historical cities of Russia. A
settlement of military valor. Belongs to the historical region of
Slobozhanshchina.
The southernmost city in the region. Located on the Bogucharka River,
6 km from its confluence with the Don, 232 km from Voronezh.
Urban settlement - the city of Boguchar is part of the Bogucharsky
municipal district of the Voronezh region and is located in the south of
the Voronezh region at a distance of 230 km from the city of Voronezh on
the border with the Rostov region. The administrative center of the
settlement is the city of Boguchar, which is also the administrative
center of the Bogucharsky municipal district.
The city of
Boguchar has a favorable economic and geographical position, located 700
km south of Moscow on the M-4 Don federal highway (Moscow - Voronezh -
Rostov-on-Don - Krasnodar - Novorossiysk), 64 km from the Kantemirovka
railway station on line Liski - Millerovo, which creates the possibility
of interregional cooperation with the Rostov region and international
cooperation with Ukraine.
The area of the urban settlement is
1325 hectares.
Boguchar is located in close proximity to the Don
River. The city is crossed in two by the Bogucharka River (the right
tributary of the Don River). The climate of Boguchar is moderate
continental, slightly arid. Winter is moderately frosty, with frequent
thaws, beginning on average on November 18 and ending on March 16.
Summer is hot and long, lasting from May 11 to September 13.
Transitional seasons are quite fast.
The place occupied by the city, with a significant part of the land
along the Bogucharka River, was previously known as the Bogucharsky
yurt, and the river valley remained practically uninhabited until 1716,
when about two hundred Cherkassy of the Ostrogozhsky regiment were
settled along the Tolucheev and Boguchar rivers and a year later ( 1717)
they were joined by several hundred more Cossacks of the same regiment,
transferred from Liven, Zemlyansk, Chernavsk, Endovishche and other
cities.
In 1765, with the introduction of a new civil system in
the administration of the suburban residents, the Bogucharskaya
settlement became part of the Ostrogozhskaya province of the
Sloboda-Ukrainian province. When the Voronezh governorate was
established in 1779 from 16 districts, including Bogucharsky, this
settlement was renamed a district town.
In 1797, Boguchar,
together with the district of the same name, again became part of the
Sloboda-Ukrainian province and only in 1802 was finally assigned to the
Voronezh province of the Russian Empire.
The first city head
(from June 14, 1872 to July 17, 1875) of the city of Boguchar was the
merchant of the 2nd guild Anisimov, Ivan Pavlovich.
From January
4, 1890 to January 17, 1894, Mikhail Pavlovich Solomin was the city
mayor at the choice of the Duma. From January 5, 1894 - director of the
Bogucharsky city public bank.
In 1897, 6,636 people lived in the
city, including 4,285 Little Russians, 2,180 Great Russians, and 95
Gypsies.
Until the beginning of the 20th century, one of the main
occupations of the residents of Boguchar was the purchase of cattle in
the Don Army Region and their resale in large capital cities.
During the Great Patriotic War, Boguchar was occupied from July 10 to
December 19, 1942.
In June 1963, by decree of the Presidium of
the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, the city of Boguchar, previously
subordinate to the Rossoshansky City Council of Workers' Deputies, was
transferred to the Bogucharsky rural district.
In 2022, the city
was awarded the honorary title of the Voronezh region “Settlement of
Military Valor.”
According to the 1939 census: Russians - 72%, or 4274 people,
Ukrainians - 25.8%, or 1103 people.
According to the results of
the 2020 population census, the following nationalities lived
(nationalities less than 0.1% and others, see the footnote to the line
“Others”).
Food industry enterprises, production of building materials.
Bogucharsky Plant of Vegetable Oils LLC was founded in 1999. The company
is engaged in sunflower processing. — At the moment, the company is in
bankruptcy.
LLC "Quiet Don", granite quarry - founded in 2006.
The production capacity of the Quiet Don granite quarry allows the
extraction and processing of more than 350 thousand m³ of granite rocks
per year and the production of crushed stone of various fractions.
Radio stations
70.04 VHF - Radio Mayak (Silent)
71.90 VHF -
Radio Russia / State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Voronezh
(Silent)
102.0 MHz – Autoradio
105.0 MHz - Radio Russia / State
Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Voronezh
106.8 MHz -
Traffic radio
107.9 MHz – Radio Melodiya
A television
Residents of Boguchar have access to 20 digital television channels
broadcast by the Voronezh ORTPTS branch of RTRS. Transmission is carried
out in packages (multiplexes) of 10 channels each.
26 TVK - 1st
multiplex
39 TVK - 2nd multiplex