Aksay

Aksai is the administrative center of the Burlin district of the West Kazakhstan region. The city is located in the steppes on the bank of the Utva River. The climate is sharply continental, summer is hot and dry, winter is cold and snowy.

Population: 33,610 (2012). Ethnic composition: Kazakhs, Russians, Ukrainians, Tatars, Belarusians, Germans.

Aksai acquired the status of a city since 1967, and began to develop rapidly after the discovery in the 1980s of the oil and gas condensate Karachaganak field.

In Aksai, there are children's preschool institutions and several secondary general education schools, an art and music school, a school of agriculture, a technical college, a branch of the West Kazakhstan Engineering and Technology University.