Mayakovsky Peak

Mayakovsky Peak
Пик Маяковского

Location in Tajikistan

Highest point
Elevation 6,096 m (20,000 ft)
Prominence 1,154 metres (3,786 ft)
Coordinates 37°10′N 71°40′E / 37.167°N 71.667°E / 37.167; 71.667Coordinates: 37°10′N 71°40′E / 37.167°N 71.667°E / 37.167; 71.667
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 Pavel Luknitsky, 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

  1. ↑ Explorations in South-Western Pamir since 1930
  2. ↑ Big Soviet Encyclopedia, on-line edition, in Russian
  3. ↑ Michal Kleslo. "Mayakovsky (6,096m), South Face, Czech Route". American Alpine Journal, 2012, vol. 54.
  4. ↑ 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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