BUZULUK, a town in the Samara Province of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, situated on the left bank of the Samara river near its junction with the Buzuluk and Do mashke. Lat. 52° 48' N., long. 12' E. Pop. (1926) 24,562, mainly Russians and Mohammedan Tatars. It is on the railway, has telegraphic connection with the south and is a river port with an elevator. It trades chiefly in corn and cattle, and has tallow, soap, leather, brick and oil pressing (from sunflower seed) indus tries. Its position on the northern edge of the dry steppe area makes it liable to famine, from which it suffered in 1921.