Aksay

Aksay lies in the valley of the Aksay Yesaulovsky, a river crossing the dry steppe southeast of the Don. Its Turkic name means “white stream.” The settlement arose around the beginning of the nineteenth century in the lands of the Kalmyk steppe, where the river formed a local landmark amid open pasture. The name belongs to this inland valley, far from the better-known town of Aksay on the lower Don near Rostov.