Bakay-Ata () is a
district
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...
of
Talas Region
Talas Region ( ky, Талас облусу, Talas oblusu; russian: Таласская область, Talasskaya oblast) is a region (''oblast'') of Kyrgyzstan. Its capital is Talas. It is bordered on the west and north by Jambyl Region of Kaza ...
in north-western
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and the People's Republic of China to the ea ...
. Its area is ,
and its resident population was 53,359 in 2021.
The administrative seat lies at
Bakay-Ata (the former ''Leninpol'').
Population
Rural communities and villages
In total, Bakay-Ata District includes 19 settlements located in 9 rural communities (). Each rural community can consist of one or several villages. The rural communities and settlements in the Bakay-Ata District are:
# Ak-Döbö (seat: Ak-Döbö; incl. Kyzyl-Say and Kyzyl-Charba)
# Aknazarov (seat: Kyzyl-Oktyabr; incl. Kök-Tash, Madaniyat, Tash-Kuduk and Ür-Maral)
# Bakay-Ata (2: center - village: Bakay-Ata; and also village Namatbek)
# Boo-Terek (seat: Boo-Terek)
# Keng-Aral (seat: Keng-Aral)
# Ming-Bulak (seat: Ming-Bulak)
# Oros (seat: Kyrgyzstan; incl. Jon-Korgon and Birinchi May)
# Özgörüsh (seat: Özgörüsh)
# Shadykan (seat: Yntymak; incl. Tüytö)
Notable people
* Gulsaira Momunova
Gulsaira Momunova, in Kyrgyz: Гүлсайра Момунова (30 December 1937 – 12 August 2020) was a Kyrgyz journalist, translator and poet. In 2011, she was given the title 'People's Poet of Kyrgyzstan'.
Biography
Momunova was born on 3 ...
- poet (1937 - 2020).
References
Districts of Talas Region
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