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Tokmok

Field	Value
official_name	Tokmok
native_name

settlement_type	City
image_skyline	Airplane monument.jpg
image_caption	Airplane monument in Tokmok
image_flag	Flag of Tokmok.svg
image_seal	Tokmak coa.svg
pushpin_map	Kyrgyzstan
pushpin_label_position	bottom
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Kyrgyzstan
pushpin_relief	yes
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_type1	Region
subdivision_name	[[File:Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg	24px	border]] Kyrgyzstan
subdivision_name1	Chüy Region
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name
area_total_km2	41
population_as_of	2024
population_footnotes
population_total	76 200
population_density_km2	auto
timezone	KGT
utc_offset	+06:00
coordinates
elevation_m	816
website

Tokmok (; ) is a city in the Chüy Valley, northern Kyrgyzstan, east of the country's capital of Bishkek, with a population of 71,443 in 2021. Its elevation is 816 m above sea level. From 2003 to 2006, it was the administrative seat of Chüy Region. Just to the north is the river Chu and the border with Kazakhstan.

Tokmok was established as a northern military outpost of the Khanate of Kokand . Thirty years later, it fell to the Russians who demolished the fort. The modern town was founded in 1864 by Major-General Mikhail Chernyayev.

Tokmok is a district-level city of regional significance within Chüy Region. Although the city is surrounded by the region's Chüy District, it is not a part of it. Its total area is 41 km2.

Medieval heritage

Despite its relatively modern origin, Tokmok stands in the middle of the Chüy Valley, which was a prize sought by many medieval conquerors. The ruins of Ak-Beshim, the capital of the Western Turkic Khaganate, are situated 8 km southwest from Tokmok. Yusuf Has Hajib Balasaguni, author of the Kutadgu Bilig is said to have been born in this area.

About 15 km south of Tokmok is the 11th-century Burana Tower, located on the grounds of an ancient citadel of which today only a large earthen mound remains. This is believed to be the site of the ancient city of Balasagun, founded by the Sogdians and later for some time the capital of the Kara-Khanid empire. A large collection of ancient gravestones and bal-bals is nearby. Excavated Scythian artifacts have been moved to museums in St. Petersburg and Bishkek.

Demographics

According to the Population and Housing Census of 2009, the population of Tokmok was 53,231. The largest ethnic groups in Tokmok are Kyrgyz (46.8%, 2009 census), Russians (20.5%), Dungans (16.5%) and Uzbeks (8.6%).

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Geography

Climate

Tokmok has a hot summer Mediterranean continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dsa). The average annual temperature is 9.5 °C (49.1 °F). The warmest month is July with an average temperature of 23.3 °C (73.9 °F) and the coolest month is January with an average temperature of −5.3 °C (22.5 °F). The average annual precipitation is 434.2mm (17") and has an average of 108.3 days with precipitation. The wettest month is April with an average of 70mm (2.8") of precipitation and the driest month is August with an average of 12.1mm (0.5") of precipitation.

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Industry

The glass manufacturer Interglass LLC is based in Tokmok. The Tokmok plant produces about 2,800 tons of liquid glass per day and 600 tons of glass is produced of the mass per day. Annual production is 200 000 tons. At present, raw materials for glass production are mainly provided by Russia and Kazakhstan.

Notable residents

Dmitry Bivol, Russian professional boxer
Alexander Kosenkow, Olympic German sprinter
Maiya Maneza, Olympic Kazakh weightlifter
Jengishbek Nazaraliev, drug rehabilitation professional and politician
Athanasius Schneider, Kazakh Roman Catholic bishop
Elihan Tore, president of the First Eastern Turkistan Islamic Republic
Mátyás Rákosi, Hungary's exiled Stalinist dictator
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing
Dennis Wolf, German professional bodybuilder

Twin town

HUN Érd, Hungary

References

{{GSEn. 111074. Токмак (город в Киргизской ССР)
{{cite Kyrgyzstan population 2021
[http://cbd.minjust.gov.kg/act/view/ru-ru/1173/10?cl=ru-ru Law 5 March 2003 No. 49]
[http://cbd.minjust.gov.kg/act/view/ru-ru/1937 Law 3 August 2006 No. 146]
{{cite Kyrgyzstan census 2009. Chuy. 13, 16, 56
(1933). "Small Soviet Encyclopedia".
(1928). "First All-Union Census of the Soviet Union. Kyrgyz ASSR.".
[http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus_pop_39_2.php 1939 census USSR]
[http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/ussr59_reg2.php 1959 census USSR]
"Climate of Tokmok".
(13 November 2012). "Kyrgyzstan to Start a 2nd Flat Glass Production Line in Tokmok". Satrapia.

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