Buhas () is a village in southeastern

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, located in Volnovakha urban hromada,

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. It was known as Maksymivka () during the times of the

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History

On 13 January 2015, during the War in Donbas, there was an artillery strike against a civilian bus near Buhas. According to early reports, 10 passengers died and 13 were injured.

Demographics

According to the

2001 Ukrainian census The Ukrainian Census of 2001 is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.

, the village had a population of 1449, of whom 5.59% natively spoke

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, 70.39% spoke Russian, 22.29% spoke Greek, 0.14% spoke

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and 0.07% spoke

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. Buhas is a multi-ethnic town, with the majority of the population being

, Russian and Greek, with smaller

and

communities, yet a significant part of the population stated at the time of the census to be from 'another' ethnicity and to speak 'another' native language.

Notable people

Ivan Ordets Ivan Ordets ( uk, Іван Миколайович Ордець; born 8 July 1992) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Bundesliga club VfL Bochum on loan from Dynamo Moscow. He is a former Ukraine national team ...

, Ukrainian footballer

References

{{Volnovakha Raion Greek diaspora in Ukraine Villages in Volnovakha Raion Volnovakha urban hromada