Aksu is a Kazakh city located in the Pavlodar region. It is located 50 kilometers south of Pavlodar. Aksu stands on the left bank of the Irtysh River. Representatives of different nationalities permanently live in Aksu: Kazakhs, Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Germans, Tatars, Chechens, Moldovans, Azerbaijanis
The history of the city begins at the end of the 19th century, when coal deposits were discovered in the area of Lake Ekibastuz. For Kazakhstan, which was pouring into the capitalist economy, this deposit was very important. Here, the first attempts were made to extract coal in a new way - through mines. For the export of coal, a railway was built from the Irtysh to Ekibastuz. The village founded here was originally called Ermak. In the early 1960s, new large ferrous metallurgy facilities began to be built here, as well as the energy sector began to develop actively, a power plant was built. The village was transformed into a city. In 1993 Yermak was renamed Aksu.
Today, the main city-forming industrial enterprises in Aksu are the power station and the Aksu ferroalloy plant. There are about 900 small and medium-sized businesses in the city, employing four thousand people. The Irtysh-Karaganda Canal named after Satpayev is an important object for the strategic development of the city. It is the main supplier of drinking water to various regions of Kazakhstan.
Representatives of various religions live in the city, for which an Orthodox church, a mosque, a community of Evangelical Baptists, a Church of Seventh-day Adventist Christians have been built, as well as an association of Jehovah's Witnesses. The sphere of education in Aksu is served by fifty institutions: kindergartens, schools, lyceums, houses of children's creativity.
