Sokuluk is a large village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 with a de jure population of 11,968 (2009 Census) in the Chuy Province

Chuy Province

Chuy Province or Chui Province is the northernmost province of the Kyrgyz Republic. It is bounded on the north by Kazakhstan, and clockwise, Issyk Kul Province, Naryn Province, Jalal-Abad Province and Talas Province...

 of Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...

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Sokuluk is the administrative center of Sokuluk District

Sokuluk District

Sokuluk District is a raion of Chuy Province in northern Kyrgyzstan. The capital lies at Sokuluk village.:-Towns, rural communities, and villages:...

, and is located about 5 km away from the town of Shopokov

Shopokov

Shopokov is a town in the Chuy Province of Kyrgyzstan. Although geographically located within Sokuluk District of that province and being the de facto economic and cultural center of the district, Shopokov is administered separately from the district....

, the main economic center of the area.

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)

Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881)

The Treaty of Saint Petersburg , also known as Treaty of Ili, was the treaty between the Russian Empire and the Chinese Empire, signed in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on 12 February 1881...

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Sokuluk is the birth place of the Dungan poet, writer, and educator Iasyr Shivaza

Iasyr Shivaza

Iasyr Shivaza or Shiwaza was a Soviet Dungan poet, writer, editor, and scholar.- Name spelling :The writer's name was spelled Jasƅl Sƅvazƅ in the Latin-based Dungan alphabet that was in use in 1932-53, and Ясыр Шывазы in the modern Cyrillic Dungan alphabet...

(1906-1988).

External links

• Website listing the cities Kyrgyzstan