1451, September 24: “Bukche”, a village. Grand Duke of Lithuania Švitrigaila allocated it (together with the village of Prybalavichy) from his personal possession of the Turov land and gifted it to Prince Mikhail Vasilyevich [Chartoryiski] “for life with subsequent transfer to his wife, children, and relatives”. The latter gave this estate as a dowry for his daughter Anna to Prince Ivan Yuryevich [dubrovitski], from whom the estate passed to Prince Mikhail Ivanovich Mstislavski as a dowry for his wife Ulyana.
1514: Bukche, a village. King Sigismund confirms its belonging to the Prince of Mstislavl by his charter.
1654: Bukcha, a village. Burned by the Muscovite army “to the last hut”. Everything was taken down to the smallest item.
1675: Bukcha (“Buckcza”), a settlement in the Brest Voivodeship.
1688 (?): Bukza (“Bukza”), a settlement in the Brest Voivodeship.
1692: Bukcha (“Buckcza”), a settlement in the Brest Polesia.
1705: Bukcha (“Buckcza”), a settlement in the Brest Voivodeship.
1710: Bukcha (“Buckcza”), a settlement in the Brest Voivodeship.
1720: Bukcha (“Buckcza”), a settlement in the Brest Voivodeship.
1724, December 19: The owner of the Turau estate, Antonia from Waldstein, Countess Sapieżyna, Voivodine of Vilna, in her decree on the demarcation of land on Luchyn-Vostrove, called Sudziareŭshchyna, between the villages of Khrapun and Kalki, mentions the Bukotskaya boundary.
1749: Bucha (“Bucza”), a settlement in the Brest Voivodeship.
1766: Upon the presentation of the owner of the village, Joachim Karol Potocki, Podczaszy of the GDL, Father Adam Malevich is ordained and installed as chaplain and pastor of the local church.
1770: Bacha (“Bacza”), a settlement within the Pinsk Polesia.
1771: Visit of the Bukotskaya church.
1772: Bukoz (“Bukoz”), a village.
1777, January 16: “Bukcha” (“Bukcze”), a village. 37 houses. Uniate Church of the Resurrection of the Lord of the Bukotskaya parish, Turov diocese, Ubarts deanery, under the patronage of Podczaszy of the GDL Joachim Karol Potocki.
1782, September 24: “Bukchy” (“Bukcze”), a village of the “Turau” volost. Property of Teresa from Sapieha Potocka, Podczaszyna of the GDL.
1787, February 22: “Bukcha” (“Bukcze”), a village. 40 houses. The Church of the Resurrection of the Lord remained under the patronage of Potocki. Pastor Father Adam Malevich.
1795, June 18: According to the report of the David-Haradok district, the Uniate church “Voskresenskaya u Bukchy” is joined to Orthodoxy.
1800: “Bukchy”.
1802: Bukcha (“Bukcha”), a village. Church.
1805: Owner Countess Mar’yana Mostotskaya.
1821: Bukchy (“Bukchi”, “Bukczy”), a village on a transit road.
1840: Repair of the church at the expense of Count Malieŭski.
1842: 23 households, 200 inhabitants.
1847: Bukcha, estate of landowner Iosif Gelyman.
1849, January 1: Bukcha (“Bukcha”), a village. 22 households.
1850 (1866): “Bukcha”, a village. 46 households. Church, cemetery.
1859: Bukcha (“Bukcza”).
1861, October 25: Bukcha, an estate. Landowner Kastana Gelymanova. Distillery.
1863: Bukcha, parish.
1866: 76 households, 428 inhabitants (209 male and 219 female). Church.
1867: Bukcha, a village and folwark. Voskresenskaya Church. 82 versts (approx. 87.5 km) from the David-Haradok church of the Pinsk deanery. In the village: 247 Orthodox; 10 temporary Catholics (according to lists of Catholic clergy – 25). In the folwark: 3 Orthodox; 20 native Catholics, 5 households.
1868, July 31: Bukcha, a village of the Bukchanskaye peasant society, Tonezh volost. According to the statutory charter of the Bukcha estate of the heirs of landowner I. K. Geltman, 31 households (31 field and 4 market gardeners), 95 revision male souls. Named list of 32 peasant farmers who redeemed more than 856 dess. of land. Redemption act. The Voskresenskaya Church is assigned to the parish of the Tonezh church.
1870, January 1: Bukcha, a village of the Bukchanskaye peasant society and estate of Tonezh volost, landowner Geltman. 11 versts (approx. 11.7 km) from the volost administration. 102 peasant-owners. Church.
1875: Bukcha and Radzilavichy, an estate of the heirs of landowner Iosif Geltman. Land: 4120 dess. suitable and 9886 dess. unsuitable. Bukcha, a village. Karl Tomashaw Shydloŭski owned 22 dess. of suitable land. July 27: Bukcha, an estate with the folwark Radzilavichy was bought by the merchant’s son Ivan Abukhaŭ.
1879: Bukcha, a village in the parish of the Tonezh church. 40 households, 317 inhabitants. Attached Voskresenskaya Church. At the “Bukotskaya” church there were 100 dess. of land on 24 plots.
1884: Bukche (“Bukche”), a village. Plan of the land of the Orthodox Voskresenskaya Church.
1886: Bukcha, a village in Tonezh volost by the Kruh stream. 47 households, 259 inhabitants. Church, ox-driven mill.
1889: Bukcha, an estate of the Moscow Timber Industry Society and a village in Tonezh volost. 12 versts (approx. 12.8 km) from the village of Tonezh and 47 versts (approx. 50.1 km) from the townlet of Turau. Private landowners: townsman Ivan Karlaw Shydloŭski and peasant Pyotr Astapaw Radutich.
1897: Bukcha, a village of the Bukchanskaye society, Tonezh volost, by a country road. Adjacent to the Bukcha estate. Church, grain reserve store. Blacksmith, carpenter, 3 shoemakers, 2 tailors. Tavern. 103 households, 608 inhabitants (294 male and 314 female). According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, 635 inhabitants, of which 123 Jews. Bukcha, an estate, on the land of the Moscow Timber Industry Society, by the postal road from the village of Tonezh to the village of Byarozava, near the village. Adjacent to the village of Bukcha. 3 households, 12 inhabitants (7 male and 5 female).
1907: Opening of the Bukchanskaye Zemstvo School (in rented premises).
1909: Bukcha, a village and estate in Tonezh volost. 11 versts (approx. 11.7 km) from the volost center. In the village: 128 households, 815 inhabitants. In the estate: 5 households, 18 inhabitants.
1910: 42 boys and 3 girls studied at the Bukchanskaye Zemstvo School.
1911, August 18: Bukcha, an estate of the Moscow Timber Industry Society.
1913, September 18: “Bukcha-Radzilavichy”, an estate of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich.
1914, July 21: Bukcha, an estate of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich. Disorders during the mobilization of reservists.
1915: “Bukcha”, a village. 50 households. As a result of a night fire, 87 residential and 420 non-residential buildings burned down, incl. a public reserve store with up to 200 poods of grain, the fire also damaged the bell tower of the local church.
1916: Bukcha-Radzilavichy, an estate of Grand Duke Romanov Mikhail Alexandrovich.
1917: Bukcha (“Bukcha”), a village in Tonezh volost. 11 versts (approx. 11.7 km) from the volost center. 157 households, 913 inhabitants (463 male and 450 female): 762 Belarusians, 151 Jews. Bukcha-Radzilavichy (“Bukcha-Radilovichi”), an estate in Tonezh volost. 11 versts (approx. 11.7 km) from the volost center. 1 household, 3 inhabitants (1 male and 2 female): 3 Belarusians. Bukcha, a village. 11 versts (approx. 11.7 km) from the parish Tonezh church. 82 households, 701 inhabitants (328 male and 373 female). Attached (“Bukochskaya”) church. School.
1924, July 17: Bukcha, a village, center of the selsoviet of Turau district, Mazyr okrug. 219 households, 1166 inhabitants.
1925: “Bukcha”, “Bukchi”, center of the selsoviet of Turau district. 219 households, 1166 inhabitants. 1 shoemaker, 14 carpenters, 3 joiners, 5 coopers, 4 blacksmiths, 1 tailor, 3 sawyers. School in Belarusian language: 80 pupils (71 boys and 9 girls): 72 Belarusians, 8 Jews. 1 dess. of plowland.
1929: “Bukcha”. Organization of the kolkhoz “Chyrvony pamezhnik” (Red Border Guard) headed by Ilya Darashkevich.
1930: Bukhcha (“Buchcza”). Church.
1931: 1250 inhabitants.
1935: “Bukhcha”, a village.
1940: “Bukcha”, a village in Turau district.
1942, December 21: Battle of partisans with German punitive forces. Burning of the village by the occupiers.
1953: Bukcha, a village in Turau district.
1954, January 8: center of the Bukchanskaye selsoviet.
1962: Bukcha, a village in the Bukchanskaye selsoviet of Lyelchitsy district.
1981, October 5: “Bukcha”, a village, center of the selsoviet. 395 inhabitants.
1986: Bukcha, a village, center of the Bukchanskaye selsoviet of Lyelchitsy district, center of the kolkhoz “Chyrvony pamezhnik”.
1990: 3 villages: Bukcha merged with the village of Sinikow.
1995: 394 households, 1109 inhabitants.
1996: Bukcha, a village in Lyelchitsy district. Center of the selsoviet and kolkhoz. 65 km west of the urban settlement of Lyelchitsy, 272 km from Gomel, 60 km from the railway station Zhytkavichy. Secondary school, House of Culture, library, post office.
1999, January 1: Bukcha, a village, center of the Bukchanskaye selsoviet of Lyelchitsy district. 375 households, 904 inhabitants, of which 321 are employed, 237 children under 15, 346 pensioners. According to the population census, 915 inhabitants (436 male and 479 female).
Local legend connects the origin of the settlement’s name with a bay (бухта – bukhta) on a nearby canal, from where timber was floated. Old-timers believe that the village was formerly called Bukhcha.
The basis of the oikonym Bukcha is most likely the name of the beech tree (бук – buk), which no longer grows here; in this case, its origin is an object of historical toponymy. Beech grows in the Precarpathian region, approximately 500 km to the southwest, but in the 12th-15th centuries this species was found everywhere in Polesia. Thus, toponyms with the stem “buk” can serve as a source for the reconstruction of changing geobotanical conditions.