an urban-type settlement in Pakhtaaral Raion, Chimkent Oblast, Kazakh SSR. Railroad station (Pakhtaaral) on the Dzhizak-Syrdar’inskaia line. Population, 12,000 (1970). There is a cotton-ginning plant and a creamery. Il’ich has a sovkhoz- technicum and an experimental station of the All-Union Cotton- growing Research Institute.