Sokuluk

Sokuluk
Сокулук
Sokuluk is located in Kyrgyzstan
Sokuluk
Sokuluk
Coordinates: 42°51′36″N 74°18′0″E / 42.86000°N 74.30000°E / 42.86000; 74.30000
CountryKyrgyzstan
RegionChüy Region
DistrictSokuluk District
Elevation
728 m (2,388 ft)
Population
 (2021)[1]
 • Total
30,540
Time zoneUTC+6
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Sokuluk (Dungan: Сохўлў, Sohwlw; Kyrgyz, Russian: Сокулук) is a large village in the Chüy Region of Kyrgyzstan. Divided over two rural communities, its total population was 30,540 in 2021.[1]

Sokuluk is the administrative center of Sokuluk District,[2] and is located about 5 km west from the town of Shopokov, the main economic center of the area.[3]

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
200924,417—    
202130,540+1.88%
Note: resident population; Sources:[1][4]

History

According to historians, Sokuluk started its existence in the early 1880s, as a place of settlement of many of the Dungan people who moved to the Russian Empire from the Kulja (Yining) area between 1881 and 1883, after Russia agreed to withdraw its troops from Kulja pursuant to the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881). [5]

Sokuluk is the birthplace of the Dungan poet, writer, and educator Iasyr Shivaza (1906-1988).

References

  1. ^ a b c "Population of regions, districts, towns, urban-type settlements, rural communities and villages of Kyrgyz Republic" (XLS) (in Russian). National Statistics Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic. 2021. Archived from the original on 10 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Classification system of territorial units of the Kyrgyz Republic" (in Kyrgyz). National Statistics Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic. May 2021. pp. 77–80.
  3. ^ Добро пожаловать в город Шопоков! (Welcome to Shopokov!) (in Russian)
  4. ^ "2009 population and housing census of the Kyrgyz Republic: Chüy Region" (PDF) (in Russian). National Statistics Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic. 2010. p. 258.
  5. ^ Svetlana Rimsky-Korsakoff Dyer. Karakunuz: An Early Settlement of the Chinese Muslims in Russia Archived 2007-06-30 at the Wayback Machine, with an English translation of V.Tsibuzgin and A.Shmakov's work. "Asian Folklore Studies", Vol. 51 (1992), pp. 243-279.


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