Tokmok (Токмок/Tokmok in Kyrgyz; Токмак/Tokmak in Russian) is a city of about 60,654 (2008) (according, to o0ther data, “over 58,000″[1]) in northern Kyrgyzstan, east of the country’s capital of Bishkek.

Its geographical location is 42°50′N, 75°17′E; its altitude is 816 m above sea level. From 2004 until 19 April 2006 it served as the administrative seat of Chui Province.

Tokmok was established as a northern military outpost of the Khanate of Kokand ca. 1830. Thirty years later, it fell to the Russians who demolished the fort. The modern town was founded on 13 May 1864 by Colonel Mikhail Chernyayev.

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