Aksha, Russia

Aksha (Russian Акша ) is a village ( selo ) and former city in the region Transbaikalia in Russia with 3941 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The village is located about 200 km as the crow south of the regional capital of Chita on the right bank of the Onon, opposite the mouth of the eponymous creek Aksha. Approximately 40 km southeast the state border runs to Mongolia.

Aksha is the administrative center of the Rajons Akschinski and is the seat and only town in the rural community Akschinskoje selskoje posselenije.

History

The village was founded in 1750 by evacuees from Tot'ma. In the 19th century Aksha was a political exile, among others, the Decembrist Pavel Abramov († 1836 in Aksha ), Konstantin Torson and Wilhelm Kuchelbecker.

In the middle of the 19th century Aksha Staniza was the Trans-Baikal Cossacks, and the establishment of a new okrugs of the former oblast Transbaikalia it received as its administrative center the city rights in 1872. 1924, the city center of Ujesds, but was downgraded by converting it into a Raion in 1926 back to a village.

Demographics

Note: from 1897 census data

Traffic

Aksha is situated on the A167 trunk road which branches off at Darassun (also station of the Trans-Siberian Railway ) from the A166 and from Aksha on the Onon up to the Mongolian border leads towards Choibalsan.