The Southern Bug, also called Southern Buh), is a river located in Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

. The source of the river is in the west of Ukraine, in the Volyn-Podillia Upland, about 145 km from the Polish border, and flows southeasterly into the Bug Estuary

Bug Estuary

Bug Estuary is an estuary of the Southern Bug. It has 82 km long and up to 11 km wide. Together with the Dnieper Estuary makes Dnieper-Bug Estuary. The city of Mykolaiv is located on the Bug Estuary....

 (Black Sea

Black Sea

The Black Sea is bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and the Aegean seas and various straits. The Bosphorus strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the strait of the Dardanelles connects that sea to the Aegean...

 basin) through the southern steppes. It is 806 kilometres (500.8 mi) long and drains 63,700 km².

Its name may be related to the proto-Germanic "Bug" which is translated as "bow", the name having been given by Goths

Goths

The Goths were an East Germanic tribe of Scandinavian origin whose two branches, the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, played an important role in the fall of the Roman Empire and the emergence of Medieval Europe....

, who arrived here in 2-3 centuries AD. During the Migrations Period the Southern Buh was an important obstacle to all the migrating tribes.
Major cities on the Southern Bug: Khmelnytskyi

Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine

Khmelnytskyi is a city in Ukraine in the region of Podillia. It is located on the Southern Buh River and about from the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. The town's original name was Płoskirów, later Proskurov, but in 1954 was renamed Khmelnytskyi. It is the center of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western...

, Vinnytsia

Vinnytsia

Vinnytsia is a city located on the banks of the Southern Bug, in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast.-Names:...

, Pervomaisk

Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast

Pervomaisk is a city in Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine and the center of the Pervomaiskyi Raion. It is located on the Southern Bug river which bisects the city...

, Mykolaiv

Mykolaiv

Mykolaiv , also known as Nikolayev , is a city in southern Ukraine, administrative center of the Mykolaiv Oblast. Mykolaiv is the main ship building center of the Black Sea, and, arguably, the whole Eastern Europe.-Name of city:...

.

Etymology

Herodotus refers to it as ancient Greek

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...

: Hypanis.

Its name may be related to the proto-Germanic "Bug" which is translated as "bow", the name having been given by Goths

Goths

The Goths were an East Germanic tribe of Scandinavian origin whose two branches, the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, played an important role in the fall of the Roman Empire and the emergence of Medieval Europe....

, who arrived here in 2-3 centuries AD.

External links

• Southern Buh rafting Boh in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (1880) Photos of the Southern Buh coasts