Lower Aktanyshbash

Lower Aktanyshbash, later known as Aktanysh, was founded by people from the Yabalak subdivision of the Kyrgyz district. It appears in written sources from 1715, and a register of 1722 records twelve households of tribute-paying Tatars by the Aktanysh River. Later records classified inhabitants as Teptyars and Bashkir landholders, reflecting changes in the Russian state's categories after Pugachev's rebellion. The villagers cultivated the land and raised livestock; others kept inns and worked at river landings.