City of Shopokov

The city of Shopokov is located at the northern slope of the Kyrgyz Range at an altitude of 740 meters above sea level.

The terrain is flat.

The city is situated 20 km west of Bishkek, with the international airport located 38 kilometers away. The largest enterprises in the city include a factory for producing technological equipment for the food industry and a sugar plant.

Key enterprises: Novo-Troitsky Sugar Plant, now AOOT "Koshoy", Sokuluk Plant "Torgmash", now ZAO "Kyrgyztorgmash".

The city status and the modern name Shopokov were granted in 1985. Before this period, the settlement was known as the village of Novotroitskoye, then as the urban-type settlement of Krasnooktyabrsky. The new toponym was assigned to the settlement in honor of the Panfilov hero Duyshenkul Shopokov, who defended the approaches to Moscow at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War and died in a fierce, unequal battle with the fascist invaders.

Population (2017) — 9.7 thousand people.

The city is home to representatives of more than 30 nationalities. The majority of the population consists of Kyrgyz, Russians, and Ukrainians.

Smaller numbers include Germans, Tatars, Uzbeks, Turks, Tajiks, and other ethnic groups belonging to the South Asian ethnic group.

The territory of Shopokov includes five microdistricts – Mirny, Novostroyka, Yuzhny, Geofizika, and the central part. The infrastructure includes multi-apartment residential complexes, private houses with garden plots, buildings of industrial enterprises, administrative offices, schools, hospitals, clinics, kindergartens, budgetary and public organizations.

A road runs through the northern part of the city, connecting Bishkek and Osh, while a railway line runs through the southern part, with a servicing station located 3 kilometers from the central part of Shopokov. It was built in the early 1930s and was named Novo-Troitskaya. It received its new name, the same as the city, 33 years later.

The city is located in an area influenced by a moderately continental climate. The lowest temperature in winter is -7 degrees, while in summer, during the peak heat, it can rise to +40. More than half of the annual precipitation occurs in the summer period.