Kadamjay ( ky, Кадамжай; russian: Кадамжай, earlier also Кадамджай) is a cityLaw 27 September 2012 No. 168 on the transformation of individual urban settlements of the Kyrgyz Republic and relating them to the category of village or city
/ref> located in Kadamjay District of

Batken Region Batken Region ( ky, Баткен облусу, Batken oblusu; russian: Баткенская область, Batkenskaya oblast) is a region ('' oblus'') of Kyrgyzstan. Its capital is Batken. It is bounded on the east by Osh Region, on the south, ...

Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and the People's Republic of China to the ea ...

. Its population was 14,049 in 2021. It is the administrative seat of Kadamjay District. Kadamjay is located between the towns of Aydarken (Khaidarkan) (to the west) and

Kyzyl-Kyya Kyzyl-Kyya ( ky, Кызыл-Кыя, russian: Кызыл-Кия ''Kyzyl-Kiya'') is a city in Batken Region, in southwestern Kyrgyzstan. It is a city of regional significance, not part of a district, and consists of the town proper and the villages ...

(to the east), and north of the Uzbek exclave Shohimardon. The river Shohimardonsoy (Kyrgyz: ''Shaymerden'') passes through Kadamjay. From 1937 until 2006, the town was officially known as "Frunze". The village adjacent to it from the north, now Pülgön, was called "Frunzenskoye". In 2012, when Kadamjay was elevated to city status, it absorbed the villages Pülgön, Tash-Kyya and Chal-Tash. Kadamjay district is thought to have the second largest mercury-

antimony Antimony is a chemical element with the symbol Sb (from la, stibium) and atomic number 51. A lustrous gray metalloid, it is found in nature mainly as the sulfide mineral stibnite (Sb2S3). Antimony compounds have been known since ancient t ...

deposit in the world."Primary Mercury Mining"
/ref> Kadamjay Antimony Factory is one of the biggest factories in

; it is the main employer in the city. Aydarken Mercury Plant, built in 1942, was reported, as of 2005, to produce 300 to 600 metric tons of mercury per year. " Metallurg Kadamjay" is the main football club, which was the 1997 champion in

. Kyrgyz-Turkish Kadamjay Semetei High School, Kyrgyz High School, 40-years (40-лет) and Babajan Aitmatov are the main schools of Kadamjay.

Population

References

External links

A site about Kadamzhay
Populated places in Batken Region {{Batken-geo-stub