Mayakovsky Peak
Mayakovsky Peak | |
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Пик Маяковского | |
![]() ![]() Location in Tajikistan | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 6,096 m (20,000 ft) |
Prominence | 1,154 m (3,786 ft) ![]() |
Coordinates | 37°10′N 71°40′E / 37.167°N 71.667°ECoordinates: 37°10′N 71°40′E / 37.167°N 71.667°E |
Geography | |
Location | Ishkoshim District, Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan |
Parent range | Ishkoshim Range (Pamirs) |
Climbing | |
First ascent | 1947 by Soviet alpinists led by V. Budenov |
Easiest route | rock / snow / ice climb |
Mayakovsky Peak (Russian: Пик Маяковского) is a peak in Pamir Mountains.
It is located in the extreme south-west corner of Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province (Ishkoshim District), where the north–south Ishkoshim Range joins the east–west Shakhdara Range. Elevation 6,096 m. Discovered in the early 1930s by Soviet explorer , 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 Mayakovsky (1893-1930).[2] The 1947 Soviet expedition was led by V. Budenov.[3][4]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Explorations in South-Western Pamir since 1930
- ^ Big Soviet Encyclopedia, on-line edition, in Russian
- ^ Michal Kleslo. "Mayakovsky (6,096m), South Face, Czech Route". American Alpine Journal, 2012, vol. 54.
- ^ Yevgeniy Gippenreiter, Vladimir Shataev. "Six and Seventhousanders of the Tien Shan and the Pamirs" (PDF 4,6 MB). Alpine Journal, 1996, 122–130.
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- Mountains of Tajikistan
- Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region
- Six-thousanders of the Pamir
- Tajikistan geography stubs