Akhtyrka, a town of European Russia, 58 miles NW. of Kharkoff, on a small affluent of the Dnieper. It has manufactures of tallow, candles, leather, and pottery, and a great annual fair. Pop. (1890) 17,820.
Akhtyrka
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 116
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