Sülüktü, also spelled Sulukta or Suliukta (Kyrgyz: Сүлүктү; Uzbek: Sulukta / Сулукта; Russian: Сулюкта, romanized: Sulyukta)[3] is a town located at the extreme western end of Batken Region in southern Kyrgyzstan.

Sülüktü is situated at the southern fringe of the Fergana Valley in a region surrounded on three sides by Tajikistan.

The urban-type settlement of Vostochny and the village of Koltso are also governed by the Sülüktü Town Council.

A lack of professionals and machinery, mismanagement, and falling income levels — all contributed to this downfall.

While Sülüktü was once an important industrial center, nowadays it gives the impression of an abandoned town.

In addition to coal, deposits of gypsum, quartz sand, and limestone were also extracted.

After the dissolution of the USSR, the majority of ethnic Russians and Tatars living in Sülüktü left the town.

In the 1990s, almost all of the factories in Sülüktü were closed down as a result of a lack professionals, disruption of Soviet trade routes, ageing machinery, and mismanagement.

Sülüktü is located in the western part of Batken Region at an altitude of 1,380 meters above sea level.

The town's sellers bring their goods from markets in Osh, Kara-Suu, and Khujand.

A large amount of local commerce occurs at the bazaars and small kiosks located all over the town.

According to Soviet geologists, the deposits of coal in Sülüktü date back to the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras.

Historically, Sülüktü's coal was extracted using both surface and underground mining methods.

The urban-type settlement of Vostochny and the village of Koltso are also governed by the Sülüktü Town Council.

The students must learn Kyrgyz and Russian, the two official languages of Kyrgyzstan.

The largest of these is the Sülüktü Institute of Humanities and Economics, SIHE (Russian: Сулюктинский гуманитарно-экономический институт, СГЭИ).

[12] This institute is a branch of the Batken State University, BSU (Russian: Баткенский Государственный Университет, БатГУ).

The children's library has two buildings, one in the town itself and another in the urban-type settlement of Vostochny.

There was a narrow gauge railway connection between Sülüktü and the Tajikistani city of Khojand (formerly called Leninobod) in Soviet times.

The nearest airport is in the nearby town of Isfana, which is 16 kilometers from Sülüktü.

Automobile roads connect Sülüktü with populated places in Leylek District.