Toktogul is an urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...

 in the Jalal-Abad Province

Jalal-Abad Province

Jalal-Abad Province, also known as Jalalabat , is a province of Kyrgyzstan. Its capital is the city of the same name, Jalal-Abad. It is surrounded by Talas Province, Chui Province, Naryn Province, Osh Province and Uzbekistan. The Jalal-Abad Province was established on November 21, 1939...

 of Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...

. There are an estimated 15,943 inhabitants. It is named after its most famous son - the musician Toktogul Satilganov

Toktogul Satilganov

Toktogul Satylganov , born in Kushchusu, Kyrgyzstan was the most famous of the Kyrgyz Akyns - improvising poets and singers. His fame reached a high point in the Soviet era when his works were promoted by the state as a musician of the people and he was known throughout Kyrgyzstan simply as...

. It is located on the northern shore of the Toktogul reservoir

Toktogul Reservoir

Toktogul Reservoir , located in the Jalal-Abad Province of Kyrgyzstan, is the largest of the reservoirs on the path of the Naryn River. The reservoir was named after Toktogul Satilganov....

. To the south, highway M41 curves around the eastern end of the reservoir toward Karaköl

Karaköl

See also Karakol', about 25 km east, and Karakol on Lake Issyk Kul.Karaköl is a city in the Jalal-Abad Province of Kyrgyzstan. Population 22,000 ....

, and Jalal-Abad

Jalal-Abad

Jalalabat is the administrative and economic centre of Jalal-Abad Province in southwestern Kyrgyzstan, with a population of about 150,000...

 city. To the north the road goes up the Chychkan valley into Talas Province

Talas Province

Talas Province is a province of Kyrgyzstan. Its capital is Talas. It is bordered on the west and north by Jambyl Province of Kazakhstan, on the east by Chui Province, on the south by Jalal-Abad Province and on the southwest by a finger of Uzbekistan. It is basically a U-shaped valley open to the...

 on its way to Bishkek

Bishkek

Bishkek , formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and the largest city of Kyrgyzstan.Bishkek is also the administrative centre of Chuy Province which surrounds the city, even though the city itself is not part of the province but rather a province-level unit of Kyrgyzstan.The name is thought to...

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