Southern Bug
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The Southern Bug, also called Southern Buh (Південний Буг, Pivdennyi Buh; Южный Буг, Yuzhny Bug), and sometimes Boh River, is a navigable river located in Ukraine.wikipedia










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Black Sea
BlackEuxinePontus Euxinus
The source of the river is in the west of Ukraine, in the Volyn-Podillia Upland, about 145 km from the Polish border, from where it flows southeasterly into the Bug Estuary (Black Sea basin) through the southern steppes.
It is supplied by a number of major rivers, such as the Danube, Dnieper, Southern Bug, Dniester, Don, and the Rioni.









Vinnytsia
VinnitsaVinnitsyaWinnica
Major cities on the Southern Bug are Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv (listed downstream, i.e. southwards).
is a city in west-central Ukraine, located on the banks of the Southern Bug.









Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
KhmelnytskyiProskurovKhmelnitsky
Major cities on the Southern Bug are Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv (listed downstream, i.e. southwards).
Khmelnytskyi is located in the historic region of Podolia on the banks of the Buh River.









List of longest rivers of Ukraine
List of rivers of UkraineRivers of Ukraine14th longest river of Ukraine
It is the second-longest river in Ukraine.
The most notable rivers of Ukraine include: Dnieper, Dniester, Southern Buh, and Siversky Donets.





Transnistria Governorate
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Between 1941 and 1944 during World War II the Southern Bug formed the border between the German-occupied Ukraine and the Romanian-occupied part of Ukraine, called Transnistria.
The Transnistria Governorate (Guvernământul Transnistriei) was a Romanian-administered territory between the Dniester and Southern Bug, conquered by the Axis Powers from the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa and occupied from 19 August 1941 to 29 January 1944.









Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast
PervomaiskPervomayskOlviopol
Major cities on the Southern Bug are Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv (listed downstream, i.e. southwards).
It is located on the Southern Bug river which bisects the city.



Bug estuary
Southern Bug estuary
The source of the river is in the west of Ukraine, in the Volyn-Podillia Upland, about 145 km from the Polish border, from where it flows southeasterly into the Bug Estuary (Black Sea basin) through the southern steppes.
Bug estuary is an estuary of the Southern Bug.

Ukraine
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The Southern Bug, also called Southern Buh (Південний Буг, Pivdennyi Buh; Южный Буг, Yuzhny Bug), and sometimes Boh River, is a navigable river located in Ukraine.
The landscape of Ukraine consists mostly of fertile plains (or steppes) and plateaus, crossed by rivers such as the Dnieper (Dnipro), Seversky Donets, Dniester and the Southern Bug as they flow south into the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov.









Zaporozhian Sich
Zaporizhian SichZaporizhian CossacksSich
Previously in the 18th century there had existed the Bohogard phalanx (Бoгоґардівська паланка, Bohogardivska palanka) as part of the Zaporizhian Sich centered in the city of Gard (today – a tract near Yuzhnoukrainsk).
Under the guidance of a starshyna named Lyakh, a conspiracy was formed among a group of 50 Cossacks to pretend to go fishing on the river Inhul next to the Southern Buh in the Ottoman provinces, and to obtain 50 passports for the expedition.







Inhul
IngulIngul RiverIngul valley
Inhul is a left tributary of the Southern Bug (Boh) and is the 14th longest river of Ukraine.


Kodyma River
Kodyma
Kodyma is a right tributary of the Southern Buh river of Ukraine.

Mykolaiv
NikolayevNikolaevMykolayiv
Major cities on the Southern Bug are Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv (listed downstream, i.e. southwards). The Varvarivskyi Bridge over Southern Bug in Mykolayiv is a swing bridge (facilitating ship building) with Europe's largest span (134 m).
On 27 August 1789, Potemkin ordered its naming near the wharf at the mouth of the Ingul river, on a high, cool and breezy spot where the Ingul river meets the Southern Bug river.









Mykolaiv Oblast
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As of April 2018, freight navigation is renewed and active between the eastuary and the grain terminal in the village of Prybuzhany (located in Voznesensk Raion in central part of the Mykolaiv Oblast) newly-built by Nibulon.
Among main there are Southern Bug (Boh), Inhulets, and Berezan.
Swing bridge
swing spanswingswing-span bridge
The Varvarivskyi Bridge over Southern Bug in Mykolayiv is a swing bridge (facilitating ship building) with Europe's largest span (134 m).
* Varvarivskyi Bridge over the Southern Bug in Mykolaiv, with Europe's longest span (134 m)









Vovk River
Vovk
It flows through the Khmelnytskyi Oblast (province) of western Ukraine and is a tributary of the Southern Bug in the Black Sea basin.
Steppe
steppesgrasslandsemi-arid
The source of the river is in the west of Ukraine, in the Volyn-Podillia Upland, about 145 km from the Polish border, from where it flows southeasterly into the Bug Estuary (Black Sea basin) through the southern steppes.









World War II
Second World WarwarWWII
Between 1941 and 1944 during World War II the Southern Bug formed the border between the German-occupied Ukraine and the Romanian-occupied part of Ukraine, called Transnistria.









Herodotus
HerodotosHerodotus of HalicarnassusHerod.
Herodotus (c.









Ancient Greek
GreekClassical GreekGr.
484–425 BCE) refers to the river using its ancient Greek name: Hypanis.



Migration Period
barbarian invasionsAge of MigrationsVölkerwanderung
During the Migration Period of the 5th to the 8th centuries CE the Southern Bug represented a major obstacle to all the migrating peoples in the area.



Cyrillic script
CyrillicCyrillic alphabetUzbek Cyrillic
The long-standing local Slavic name of the river, Boh (Cyrillic: Бог), may derive from a root meaning "rich" (бaгата, bahata).





Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan
William le Vasseur de BeauplanBeauplanGuillaume de Beauplan
The 17th-century French military engineer and geographer Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan recorded the name of the river as Boh Ruthenian (Бог Руський, Boh Ruskyi).


Southern Ukraine
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From the 16th to the 18th centuries most of the Southern Ukraine formed part of the Crimean Khanate and/or of the Ottoman Empire; the river had the Turkic name Aq-su, meaning the "White river".



Crimean Khanate
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From the 16th to the 18th centuries most of the Southern Ukraine formed part of the Crimean Khanate and/or of the Ottoman Empire; the river had the Turkic name Aq-su, meaning the "White river".









Ottoman Empire
OttomanOttomansTurks
From the 16th to the 18th centuries most of the Southern Ukraine formed part of the Crimean Khanate and/or of the Ottoman Empire; the river had the Turkic name Aq-su, meaning the "White river".








