Sokuluk

Sokuluk (; Kyrgyz, ) is a lairge veelage wi a population o roughly 17,000 in the Chuy Province o Kyrgyzstan.

Sokuluk is the admeenistrative centre o Sokuluk Destrict, an is locatit aboot 5 km away frae the toun o Shopokov, the main economic centre o the aurie.Добро пожаловать в город Шопоков!  (Welcome to Shopokov!) 

History
Accordin tae historians, Sokuluk stairtit its existence in the early 1880s, as a place o dounset o mony o the Dungan fowk who moved tae the Roushie Empire frae the Kulja (Yining) aurie atween 1881 an 1883, efter Roushie agreed tae athdraw its troops frae Kulja pursuant tae the Treaty o Saunt Petersburg (1881).
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 birth place o the Dungan poet, writer, an educator Iasyr Shivaza (1906-1988).

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References

Category:Populatit places in Chuy Province