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Vinnytsia Vinnytsia ( ; uk, Вінниця, ; yi, װיניצע) is a city in west-central Ukraine, located on the banks of the Southern Bug. It is the administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast and the largest city in the historic region of Podillia. A ...

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Khmelnytskyi Oblast Khmelnytskyi Oblast ( uk, Хмельни́цька о́бласть, translit=Khmelnytska oblast; also referred to as Khmelnychchyna — uk, Хмельни́ччина) is an oblast (province) of western Ukraine covering portions of the histo ...

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The Southern Bug, also called Southern Buh ( uk, Південний Буг, ''Pivdennyi Buh''; russian: Южный Буг, ''Yuzhny Bug''; ro, Bugul de Sud or just ), and sometimes Boh River ( uk, Бог, pl, Boh),Boh River
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is a navigable river located in

. It is the second-longest river in Ukraine. The source of the river is in the west of Ukraine, in the Volyn-Podillia Upland, about from the Polish border, from where it flows southeasterly into the Bug Estuary (

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basin) through the southern

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Several regionally important cities and towns in Ukraine are located on the Southern Bug. Beginning in Western Ukraine and moving downstream, in a southeasterly direction, they are:

Khmelnytskyi Khmelnytskyi ( uk, Хмельни́цький, Khmelnytskyi, ), until 1954 Proskuriv ( uk, Проску́рів, links=no ), is a city in western Ukraine, the administrative center for Khmelnytskyi Oblast (region) and Khmelnytskyi Raion (dist ...

Khmilnyk Khmilnyk ( uk, Хмільник, ; russian: Хмельник; pl, Chmielnik) is a resort town in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine. Administratively, it is incorporated as a town of oblast significance. It also serves as an administrative center of Kh ...

Haivoron Haivoron ( uk, Гайворон) is a town in Holovanivsk Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast (oblast, region) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Haivoron urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: Haivoron is situated on the South ...

, Pervomaisk,

Voznesensk Voznesensk ( uk, Вознесенськ, ; russian: Вознесенск) is a city in Mykolaiv Oblast (region) of Ukraine and the administrative center of Voznesensk Raion (district). It hosts the administration of the Voznesensk urban hroma ...

and

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. Between 1941 and 1944 during

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the Southern Bug formed the border between the German-occupied Ukraine and the Romanian-occupied part of Ukraine, called

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Nomenclature, etymology and history

( uk, Південний Буг, ''Pivdennyi Buh''; pl, Boh; russian: Южный Буг; Ottoman tr, Aksu)

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(c. 484–425 BCE) refers to the river using its

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name: Hypanis. During the

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of the 5th to the 8th centuries CE the Southern Bug represented a major obstacle to all the migrating peoples in the area. The long-standing local Slavic name of the river, ''Boh'' (

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: Бог), according to

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as ''*bugъ''/''*buga'' derives from Indo-European verbal root ''*bheug-'' (having cognates in old Germanic word ''*bheugh-'' etc. with meaning of "bend, turn, moves away"), with hypothetical original meaning of "pertaining to a (river) bend", and derivatives in Russian ''búga'' ("low banks of a river, overgrown with bushes"), Polish ''bugaj'' ("bushes or woods in a river valley or on a steep river bank"), Latvian ''bauga'' ("marshy place by a river"). The 17th-century French military engineer and geographer

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recorded the name of the river as ''Bog''. From the 16th to the 18th centuries most of the south of Ukraine was under Turkish imperial domination and the colonists renamed the river using their own language to the ''Aq-su'', meaning the "White river". Indigenous Slavic toponyms were re-established after the liberation of the Pontic region from Turkish domination in the 17th and 18th centuries. On March 6, 1918, the Central Council of the

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adopted a law on the "administrative-territorial division of Ukraine", dividing it into regional districts. One of these, Pobozhia (meaning lands of the ''Boh'', uk , Побожжя), was in the upstream lands of the Southern Bug, near the source of the river.

Tributaries

The main tributaries of the Southern Bug are, from source to mouth (length in parentheses): * Left:

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(75),

Ikva The Ikva ( uk, Іква) is a river in Ukraine and a right tributary of the Styr River that flows through Lviv Oblast, Ternopil Oblast and Rivne Oblast in the Volhynian Upland.Zabokrytska, M. Ikva (І́КВА)'. Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine. It ...

(57), Snyvoda (58), Desna (80), Sob (115), Udych (56), Synytsia (78), Synyukha (111), Velyka Korabelna (45), Mertvovid (114), Hnylyi Yelanets (103),

Inhul The Inhul ( uk, Інгул) is a left tributary of the Southern Bug (Boh) and is the 14th longest river of Ukraine. It flows through the Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv regions. It starts near the village of Rodnykivka, Oleksandriia Raion in Kirovohr ...

(354) * Right: Vovk (71), Zghar (95),

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(104), Silnytsia (67), Dokhna (68), Savran (97), Kodyma (149), Bakshala (57), Chychyklia (156)

Ecology

In October 2020, the Southern Bug was stocked with three hundred and fifty kilograms of Hungarian carp and 50 kilograms of silver carp at Khmelnytskyi.

Bridges and ferries

The Varvarivskyi Bridge over Southern Bug in

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is a

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(facilitating

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) with

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's largest span (134 m). It is also the southernmost bridge over the river.

Navigation

The river is technically navigable for dozens of kilometers up from its mouth; several

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(such as

) exist. In 2011, plans were announced to revive commercial freight navigation on the Southern Bug upstream of Mykolayiv, to facilitate the increasing

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export from Ukraine.«НИБУЛОН» заложил основу собственного флота
/ref> As of April 2018, freight navigation was renewed between the estuary and a newly built grain terminal in the village of Prybuzhany,

Voznesensk Raion Voznesensk Raion ( uk, Вознесенський район) is located in Mykolaiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the town of Voznesensk. Population: History In 1923, uyezds in Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic were abolishe ...

, in the center of the

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Gallery

File:Southern Bug under ice.JPG, Winter-frozen Southern Bug in

. File:Rika Ploska vpadaye v Pivdenny Bug, Khmelnitsky, 2005 07 28.jpg, The emptying into the Southern Bug. File:South Bug Vinnitsa 2006 G1.JPG, Southern Bug in

. File:Ship M I Pirogov Vinnitsa 2006 G2.jpg, A

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on the river in Vinnytsia (2006). File:South bug08.jpg, Riverside skyline of

. File:Yujni bug 2.jpg, Southern Bug in vicinity of the Granite-steppe lands of Bug landscape park. File:Меджибізький замок (травень 2011).jpg, Southern Bug in Medzhybizh File:Confluence of the rivers Southern Bug and Dnieper.jpg, Historical map of the confluence of the rivers Southern Bug and Dnieper.

References

External links

Southern Buh rafting
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Boh
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Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland The Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic Countries ( pl, Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich) is a monumental Polish gazetteer, published 1880–1902 in Warsaw Warsaw ( p ...

(1880) *
Photos of the Southern Buh coasts
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