Nikolai Korzhenevskiy

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Nikolai Leopol'dovich Korzhenevskiy (Russian: Николай Леопольдович Коржене́вский, February 6 (18), 1879 – October 31, 1958), born in Vitebsk Guberniya, Russia (today Belarus), died in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. A famous Russian and Soviet geographer, glaciologist, Pamir explorer. His exploration of Pamir began in 1903, with support from the military command in the region. Between 1903 and 1928 Korzhenevskiy organized eleven expeditions to various parts of Pamir. In August 1910 he discovered one of the highest peaks in Pamir Mountains, which he named Peak Korzhenevskaya after his wife Evgeniya (Russian: Пик Евгении Корженевской). In 1928 he produced a unique map of Pamir, which for the first time showed a meridional mountain range that he had discovered and called Akademiya Nauk Range in honor of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

Alternative transliterations of Korzhenevskiy's name include Korzhenevskii, Korzhenevski, Korzhenevsky, and Korzhenievsky.

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• Korzhenevskiy: A Name on the Map of Pamir, Ferghana.ru, 2007, in Russian
• "Korzhenevskiy, Nikolai Leopol'dovich", Big Soviet Encyclopedia, on-line edition, in Russian