Katyn-Tau ( ka, კათინთაუ; russian: Катын-Тау) is a
summit in the central part of the
Greater Caucasus Mountain Range (
Bezengi Wall).
It lies on the border of
Svaneti
Svaneti or Svanetia (Suania in ancient sources; ka, სვანეთი ) is a historic province in the northwestern part of Georgia. It is inhabited by the Svans, an ethnic subgroup of Georgians.
Geography
Situated on the southern slop ...
(
Mestia Municipality
Mestia ( ka, მესტიის მუნიციპალიტეტი, ''Mesṫiis municiṗaliṫeṫi'') is a district of Georgia, in the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti. Its main town is Mestia.
It has an area of 3,045 km2 and ...
, Georgia) and
Kabardino-Balkaria
The Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (russian: Кабарди́но-Балка́рская Респу́блика, ''Kabardino-Balkarskaya Respublika''; kbd, Къэбэрдей-Балъкъэр Республикэ, ''Ķêbêrdej-Baĺķêr Respublik ...
(Russia). The elevation of the mountain is 4979 m (16,335 ft)
above sea level.
Katyn-Tau — peakbagger.com
/ref> The mountain is made up of paleozoic granites. The slopes of summit are covered nival landscape.[M. Utmelidze, ]Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia
The ''Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia'' ( ka, ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია, ქსე) is the first universal encyclopedia in the Georgian language, printed in Tbilisi from 1965, the editor in chi ...
, V, p. 318, Tbilisi
Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million p ...
, Georgia, 1980.
References
Mountains of Georgia (country)
Mountains of Kabardino-Balkaria
Four-thousanders of the Caucasus
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