Akademiya Nauk Range

Akademiya Nauk Range
Хребет Академии Наук

Ismoil Somoni Peak in 1989
Highest point
Peak Ismoil Somoni Peak
Elevation 7,495 m (24,590 ft)
Coordinates 38°55′N 72°01′E / 38.917°N 72.017°ECoordinates: 38°55′N 72°01′E / 38.917°N 72.017°E
Geography
Country Tajikistan
Parent range Pamir Mountains
Geology
Period Paleozoic
Type of rock sedimentary and metamorphic rocks

Akademiya Nauk Range (Russian: Хребет Академии Наук, Tajik: Qatorkuhi Akademiyai Fanho) is a mountain range in the Western Pamirs of Tajikistan. It is stretched in the meridianal direction and considered to be the core of the Pamir mountain system.

The highest peak of the range is the Ismoil Somoni Peak. It was also the highest peak in the former Soviet Union. The length of the Akademiya Nauk Range is about 110 km. The crest of the range has an Alpine-like relief with 24 summits more than 6,000 m in height. The lowest saddle point, Kamaloyak (Камалояк), is at the altitude of 4,340 m (14,240 ft).

The range is formed with sedimentary and metamorphic rocks of the Paleozoic Era and partially granites. It is covered with permanent snow, which feeds a large number of big glaciers. The total area of the glacial ice is around 1,500 km².[1]

The Akademiya Nauk Range was discovered by Russian geographer and Pamir explorer Nikolai Korzhenevskiy and named after the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1927.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Big Soviet Encyclopedia, on-line edition, in Russian.