Karl Marx Peak

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Karl Marx Peak
Karl Marx Peak (Tajikistan )
Karl Marx Peak
Karl Marx Peak
Location in Tajikistan
Coordinates: 37°20′N 72°25′E / 37.333, 72.417
Country ‎ Tajikistan
Province GBAO

Karl Marx Peak (Tajik: Қуллаи К. Маркс) rises to 6,726 m in the Shakhdara Range in Pamir Mountains, in the south-west of Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province (eastern part of Ishkoshim district), near Panj River on the border with Afghanistan.[1] [2] The highest summit in the Shakhdara Range, it was discovered and named in 1937 by Soviet geologist and explorer of South-West Pamir Sergey Klunnikov.[3] The ascent was delayed by the outbreak of World War II, and Karl Marx Peak was first climbed in 1946 by а group of Soviet alpinists led by Evgeniy Beletskiy.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Big Soviet Encyclopedia, on-line edition (Russian).
  2. ^ "Pik Karl Marx" in Encarta World Atlas.
  3. ^ Discovery of Karl Marx Peak (Russian).
  4. ^ First ascent (Russian).

Coordinates: 37°20′N 72°25′E / 37.333, 72.417


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