Tokmok

About Tokmok

Tokmok (Kyrgyz: Токмок, Tokmok ('hammer'); Russian: Токмак, Tokmak) is a city in the Chuy Valley, northern Kyrgyzstan, east of the country's capital of Bishkek, with a population of 53,231 in 2009. Its geographical location is 42°50′N 75°17′E / 42.833°N 75.283°E; its altitude is 816 m above sea level. From 2004 to 2006, it was the administrative seat of Chuy Region. Just to the north is the Chu River and the border with Kazakhstan. Tokmok was established as a northern military outpost of the Khanate of Kokand c.1830. 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 administrative unit of Chui Province. Although the city is surrounded by the province's Chuy District, it is not a part of it.

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• Population: 53.2k inhabitants
• Larger Foreign Communities: Kyrgyzstan Germans