Bohurcha, Historical locality in Simferopol, Ukraine.
Bohurcha, also known as Kamenka, is a former village on the north-eastern edge of Simferopol, south of Pobedy Avenue. Since 1989 it has been part of the city's Kievsky district. The area covers 340 hectares and contains 92 gardening cooperatives, with about 20,000 permanent residents. The Bavurchy Jami Mosque and a Christian cemetery stand in the locality.
Bavurchi is first recorded in the 1784 Cameral Description of Crimea as a village of the Akmechet kadilyk. It was later abandoned, then revived as the farmstead Baurcha with one household and seven residents by 1864. Renamed Kamenka in 1945, it was absorbed into Simferopol on 31 August 1989.
The name Bavurçı is Crimean Tatar, recorded in the 1784 Cameral Description of Crimea as a village of the Akmechet kadilik. A mosque, Bavurçı Camisi, still stands in the locality, and a Christian cemetery lies nearby. The Kamenska balka, or Bourça yılğa, east of the site holds several seasonal lakes where the Abdalka river rises.
The former village lies in Simferopol's Kyivskyi district, bounded by Prospekt Peremohy and the streets Sinokosna and Silska. The Abdalka river rises in the Kamianska balka on the eastern edge, where several drying lakes feed it. The area is now a garden plot massif of 92 associations with about 20,000 residents, so expect built-up lanes rather than open countryside.
The village was renamed Kamenka by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR on 21 August 1945, and on 31 August 1989 the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR decided to incorporate it into Simferopol. The former village is now a district of about 20,000 residents with 92 gardening associations.
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