- Aksay
Aksay ( _ru. Аксай) is a town in
Rostov Oblast ,Russia , located on the right bank of the Don River, 18 km north-east ofRostov-on-Don . Population: ru-census|p02=38012|p89=33389It was founded in the second half of the 16th century as a Cossack settlement. Until the 18th century, it was known as Ust-Aksayaskaya ( _ru. Усть-Акса́йская), Nizhniye Razdory ( _ru. Ни́жние Раздо́ры), Kobyakovsky ( _ru. Кобяковский), Atamansky ( _ru. Атама́нский), and Nizhny ( _ru. Ни́жний). From 1791, it is known as the
stanitsa of Aksayskaya ( _ru. Акса́йская). In 1957, it was granted town status and renamed Aksay.Aksay serves as an industrial satellite of Rostov-on-Don.
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*ru icon [http://www.aksay.ru/spr/ Website of Aksay]
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