Mayakovskiy Peak

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Mayakovskiy Peak
Mayakovskiy Peak (Tajikistan )
Mayakovskiy Peak
Mayakovskiy Peak
Location in Tajikistan
Coordinates: 37°10′N 71°40′E / 37.167, 71.667
Country ‎ Tajikistan
Province GBAO

A peak in Shakhdara Range in Pamir Mountains, in the extreme south-west corner of Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province (Ishkoshim district). Elevation 6,096 m. Discovered in the early 1930s by Soviet explorer Luknitskiy, who gave it a figurative name, Three-Headed Peak.[1] After the first ascent by Soviet alpinists in 1947, the peak was renamed in honor of the Soviet Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovskiy (1893-1930).[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Explorations in South-Western Pamir since 1930
  2. ^ Big Soviet Encyclopedia, on-line edition, in Russian

Coordinates: 37°10′N, 71°40′E

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