Sokuluk (; Kyrgyz language, ) is a large village in the Chüy Region of Kyrgyzstan. Divided over two rural communities, its total population was 30,540 in 2021.
Sokuluk is the administrative center of Sokuluk District,[ 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 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).
[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 people poet, writer, and educator Iasyr Shivaza (1906-1988).
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