Aksu (Kazakh: Ақсу, Aqsu), literally meaning the white river, formerly known as Yermak (Russian: Ермак, until 1993), is a city in Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan.

[1] Aksu is located 50 kilometers (31 mi) to the south of Pavlodar, the administrative center of the region.

In this way, at the turn of the 20th century a small village made of wattle-and-daub houses arose close to Kazakh Aul No.

The population of Glinka gradually increased, most intensively after the riots of 1906, when out-migrants poured into the Kazakh and Siberian steppe.

The first kommissar of the Ekibastuz Soviet, Stepan Tsaryov was murdered by rioters in Yermak, in the railway station square.

Decree of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet of Kazakh SSR dated October 23, 1961, granted the Yermak settlement the status of a town.

TN 2189-ХП of the Praesidium of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated May 4, 1993, the town of Yermak was renamed the city of Aksu.

In December 1996, the enterprise was restructured into an open joint stock company, Eurasian Power Corporation (ОАО Евроазиатская энергетическая корпорация).

Aksu health care institutions include Aksu Central Hospital, Kalkaman village hospital, TB dispensary, ambulance station, 11 rural outpatient clinics, including one private clinic.