[2] According to a report by the local authorities (undated, but published some time between 2003 and 2009), the town's population was 9,150.

[3] Major ethnic groups were Russians (4906), Kyrgyz (2704), Ukrainians (752), and Germans (296).

[3] The predecessor of today's Shopokov City was an urban-type settlement named Krasnooktyabrsky (Краснооктябрьский, i.e. "Red October"), established in 1939 along with the construction of a sugar mill.

[4] Shopokov was incorporated as a town (город) and received its present name on February 25, 1985.

[3] The town is named after Düyshönkul Shopokov, one of the 28 soldiers of Ivan Panfilov's Division who were reported to die heroically on November 16, 1941, while defending Moscow.