Aksai River
Description:
The Aksai River is the right tributary of the Don. In the area of the village Melikhovskaya, it originates from the Don, and the city with the same name again falls into it. On its banks there are small villages Bessergenevskaya, Zaplavskaya, Krivyanskaya, farms, as well as the city of Novocherkassk.
Not far from Novocherkassk on the banks of the river there is a regional reserve "Golden slides", and in the floodplain between the Don and Aksai, vegetable production is well developed, high yields give melon crops.
Once there was a settlement of Cossacks in the area of today’s city of Aksai, who gave it this name. Then the river was called by that name.
On the Aksai river you can often meet fishermen, their usual catch is roach, carp, ram, sazan, sander, carp, perch.