Yuryevka () is a village in the

Ysyk-Ata District Ysyk-Ata District (, ) is one of the eight Districts of Kyrgyzstan, districts of the Chüy Region in northern Kyrgyzstan with an area of . The district's resident population was 154,340 in 2021. Since 1998, when the former Kant District was merged ...

Chüy Region Chüy is the northernmost Regions of Kyrgyzstan, region of Kyrgyzstan, surrounding the country's national capital of Bishkek. It is bounded on the north by Kazakhstan, and clockwise, Issyk-Kul Region, Naryn Region, Jalal-Abad Region, and Talas Re ...

Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir Mountains, Pamir mountain ranges. Bishkek is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Kyrgyzstan, largest city. Kyrgyz ...

located on the right bank of

Ysyk-Ata The Ysyk-Ata () is a river in Ysyk-Ata District of Chüy Region of Kyrgyzstan. The river rises on the north slopes of Kyrgyz Ala-Too Range , Kyrgyz Ala-Too and flows in north-north-east and north-east directions until confluence with its right tr ...

. The village officially recognised in 1909. Its population was 4,205 in 2021. Yuryevka is known for its significant

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population, constituting just under 10% of the village's residents. Many of these Germans settled in areas around Yuryevka during the reign of

Catherine the Great Catherine II. (born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 172917 November 1796), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She came to power after overthrowing her husband, Peter I ...

, Queen of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...

from 1762 to 1796, who introduced reforms encouraging the migration of Germans to Russia, to farm arable lands along the

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and

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rivers. Many of these Germans, however, were displaced during the First and Second World Wars, leading to the ethnic cleansing of the Germans living in Yuryevka. A popular Youtube video was posted on the 8 of September, 2016, titled "''Kyrgyzstan's Germans: Ethnic minority fading away in central Asia state"''

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Populated places in Chüy Region {{chuy-geo-stub