Sokuluk ( dng, Сохўлў, Sohwlw;
Kyrgyz, russian: Сокулук) is a large village in the
Chüy Region of
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 ...
. Divided over two rural communities, its total population was 30,540 in 2021.
Sokuluk is the administrative center of
Sokuluk District
Sokuluk ( ky, Сокулук району; russian: Сокулукский район) is a district of the Chüy Region in northern Kyrgyzstan. Its area is , and its resident population was 194,579 in 2021. The administrative seat lies at Sokuluk ...
,
and is located about 5 km west from the town of
Shopokov, the main economic center of the area.
[Добро пожаловать в город Шопоков!]
(Welcome to Shopokov!)
Population
History
According to historians, Sokuluk started its existence in the early 1880s, as a place of settlement of many of the
Dungan people
Dungan, Xiao'erjing: ; zh, s=东干族, t=東干族, p=Dōnggān zú, w=Tung1kan1-tsu2, , Xiao'erjing: ; russian: Дунгане, ''Dungane''; ky, Дуңгандар, ''Duñgandar'', دۇنغاندار; kk, Дүңгендер, ''Düñgende ...
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)
The Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881) (), also known as Treaty of Ili (), was a treaty between the Russian Empire and the Qing dynasty that was signed in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on . It provided for the return to China of the eastern part of th ...
.
[Svetlana Rimsky-Korsakoff Dyer]
Karakunuz: An Early Settlement of the Chinese Muslims in Russia
, with an English translation of V.Tsibuzgin and A.Shmakov's work. "Asian Folklore Studies", Vol. 51 (1992), pp. 243-279.
Sokuluk is the birthplace of the
Dungan Dungan may refer to:
* Donegan, an Irish surname, sometimes spelled Dungan
* Dungan people, a group of Muslim people of Hui origin
** Dungan language
** Dungan, sometimes used to refer to Hui Chinese people generally
* Dungan Mountains in Sibi Dist ...
poet, writer, and educator
Iasyr Shivaza (1906-1988).
External links
Website listing the cities Kyrgyzstan
References
Populated places in Chüy Region
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