a city, the administrative center of Buturlinovka Raion, Voronezh Oblast, RSFSR, on the Osered’ River (tributary of the Don). It is a railroad station on the Talovaia-Kalach branch. Population, 23, 000 (1968). The city has a food industry (a flour combine; alcohol and liquor and vodka distilleries; a cannery; an oil mill; and a poultry combine), a construction combine, and a shoe factory. It also has a mechanical and technological technicum, a Soviet trade technicum, and a medical and a pedagogical school. Buturlinovka was founded in the 18th century and became a city in 1917-18.