Koshkol'

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Coordinates: 42°31′48″N 76°36′36″E / 42.53, 76.61
Koshkol' Кошкөл (Koshköl)
On the beach in Koshkol'
Koshkol'
Country	Kyrgyzstan
Province	Issyk Kul Province
Elevation	1,626 m (5,335 ft)
Time zone	UTC +5 (UTC)

Koshkol' (Kyrgyz: Кошкөл; Russian: Кош-Кол or Кош-Коль) is a village in the Issyk Kul Province of Kyrgyzstan. The village name has also been transliterated as Kosh-Kël' or or Kosh-Kel'.

It is located in the Issyk Kul District of this province, between Balykchy and Cholpon-Ata. The village includes two built-up areas. First, the actual residential village, located along the Balykchy-Cholpon-Ata-Karakol highway, as it cuts across the base of a Koshkol promontory jutting into Lake Issyk Kul; this section is within a couple kilometers from the lake shore. Second, the name Koshkol' is also applied to the resort strip to the south of the village, on the south-eastern shore of the peninsula. Most of the resort buildings there are decidedly Soviet-era; as of 2007, some of them appeared abandoned, while others received visitors.