Vacha is an old selo (a larger village) whose first documentary mentions date to 1588, when the scribe Vasily Borisov and the clerk Tretyak Abramov were describing the Nizhny Novgorod uyezd; Vacha received the status of a workers' settlement in 1938.[1]
Vachsky District was formed on June 30, 1929, at an organizational congress in Novosyolki; it incorporated the Novoselskaya and Yakovtsevskaya volosts of Murom uyezd (which had previously belonged to Vladimir Governorate), part of the Arefinskaya volost of the same uyezd, and also the settlements of the Salavirskaya and Paninskaya volosts of Gorbatov uyezd of Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, with Novosyolki initially serving as the district's center.[1]
The word "vachkasy" is, morphologically, a common noun of the masculine gender, second declension, used mainly in the plural.[2]
Vachkasy are the residents of the workers' settlement of Vacha and Vachsky District in Nizhny Novgorod Region.
The name was formed in a thoroughly individual way. Among the versions of the origin of the toponym "Vacha," three stand out: from the Novgorod word "veche" (according to legend, people from Novgorod resettled here); from the Mordvin words "vacho" and "vacha," meaning "hungry"; and from the word "voch," "wild duck," since the valley of the Vachka river was marshy and rich in ducks in ancient times.[1]
One possible way it was formed is from the Mordvin illative case of the variant Vachka river, plus S.
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- autotravel-nn.ru — Vacha is an ancient selo (a larger village), the first documentary mentions of which date to 1588: at that time the scribe Vasily Borisov and the clerk Tretyak Abramov described Nizhny Novgorod
- slova-razbor.ru — Morphologically, the word "vachkasy" is a common masculine noun of the second declension, used mainly in the plural