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Coat of arms of Buy

Buy (Russian: Буй) is a town in Kostroma Oblast, Russia, which stands on the Kostroma River. Population: 27,392 (2002 Census); 32,701 (1989 Census). Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Types of inhabited localities in Russia, Soviet Union, and some other post-Soviet states have certain peculiarities with respect to the English language traditions. ... Kostroma Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ... Kostroma (Кострома́) is a river in Russia, left tributary of Volga. ... Russian Census of 2002 (Russian: ) was the first census of Russian Federation carried out on October 9, 2002. ... The 1989 Soviet Census was the final and most comprehensive census taken within The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics The census officially recorded the popullation of the USSR at 286,717,000, making it the third most populous country in the world. ...

Buy was originally a trading post and protected by an hill fortress of Finno Ugrian Meri (Russian Merja) people c. 400-500 AD. Its original Meri name is not known, but in Finnish language it was called either Vuoksensuu or Vieksansuu (Mouth of Vuoksi / Vieksa). It was inhabited by the Finno Ugrian peoples of the area at least up to the Mongol invasion to Russia in 1237-1238. During the Mongol threat, few inhabitants of Kostroma seeked refuge in Buy, and it seems that they renamed the place to Buy (Vui = Bui) instead of difficult Finno Ugrian name, but the origin of the Russian name comes from the old Meri (Merja) name.

According to Russian history Buy was found in 1536 as a fortified point at the confluence of the Kostroma River and the Vyoksa River. The fortified point was built according to the order of Yelena Glinskaya, the regentess of Russia at that time and the mother of Ivan the Terrible. Confluence of Rhine and Mosel at Koblenz In geography, a confluence describes the point where two rivers meet and become one, usually when a tributary joins a more major river. ... Kostroma (Кострома́) is a river in Russia, left tributary of Volga. ... The Vyoksa River (Russian: ) is a river running in the western part of the Kostroma Oblast in the Central Russia. ... Elena Vasilyevna Glinskaya (Елена Васильевна Глинская in Russian) (? - April 4(13). ... Tsar Ivan the Terrible, by Viktor Vasnetsov Ivan IV Vasilyevich (Russian: ) (August 25, 1530, Moscow â€“ March 18, 1584, Moscow) was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and Czar of Russia from 1547 until his death. ...

Buy received its status as a town in 1778, in the reign of Catherine the Great. “Catherine the Great” redirects here. ...

During the construction of the St.Petersburg - Viatka (Vyatka) Railway (completed in 1908) the population of Buy grow from mere than a thousand to 3.500 in 1913. The new Bui railway station was located 682 versts from St.Petersburg and 576 versts from Moscow.

In 1914-1915 the Russians built a large POW camp for captured Austrian, Hungarian and German prisoners of war. It was located three versts south of Buy in Korega at the west bank of Kostroma River. After the Peace Treaty of Brest-Litowsk was signed on March 3. 1918 under the terms of Peace Treaty all prisoners of war were released. The camp was left empty. After the Finland´s Civil War in 1918 many Finnish Reds who escaped into Soviet Russia were relocated to the Bui camp as their first place to create Communist Society. There were from time to time even more than 5.000 Finns. Many of them decided to resettle in Bui, but they vanished during the Great Purge in 1936-1938. Most of them were shot, the remainders who were left, were deported, thus ending the presence of Finno Ugrian population in Bui area.

	Cities and towns in Kostroma Oblast
	Administrative center: Kostroma Buy | Chukhloma | Galich | Kologriv | Makaryev | Manturovo | Nerekhta | Neya | Sharya | Soligalich | Volgorechensk Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Kostroma Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Russia. ... Fire-observation watchtower in Kostroma (1825-28). ... Coat of Arms of Chukhloma Chukhloma (Russian: ) is a town in Kostroma Oblast, Russia, located 171 km north-east of Kostroma at . ... Galich, Галич is a town in Kostroma Oblast, Russia. ... Coat of arms of Kologriv Kologriv (Russian: ) is a town in Kostroma Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Unzha River 339 km north-east of Kostroma at . ... Manturovo (Russian: ) is a town in Kostroma Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Unzha River (Volgas tributary), some 260 km northeast of Kostroma. ... Nerekhta (Не́рехта) is a town in Kostroma Oblast, Russia, known since the early 13th century. ... Coat of arms of Neya Neya (Russian: ) is a town in Kostroma Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Neya River (Unzhas tributary), some 240 km northeast of Kostroma. ... Sharya (Russian: ) is a town in Kostroma Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Vetluga River some 330 km northeast of Kostroma. ... Soligalich (Russian: Солигалич) is a town in the Kostroma Oblast in Russia, located on the right bank of the Kostroma River. ... Coat of arms of Volgorechensk Volgorechensk (Russian: ) is a town in Kostroma Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River, 40 km south of Kostroma. ...