The Bezengi Glacier () is a vast valley-type glacier in the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria,

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, near the northern slope of the

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of the

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. Klok, E. J., and J. Oerlemans. ''Climate Reconstructions Derived from Global Glacier Length Records.''

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, vol. 36, no. 4, 2004, pp. 575–583. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1552311. Accessed 28 Sept. 2020.

Morphology

The Bezengi Glacier runs from the peaks of

Shkhara Shkhara ( ka, შხარა; ) is a mountain peak and the highest point in the country of Georgia. It is located on the Georgia–Russia border, in Russia's Kabardino-Balkaria region on the northern side, and the Svaneti region of Georgia in ...

and Janga until it drops to height 2000 m. Glacier area 36 km, length 17.6 km, tongue about 9 km. Much of the tongue of the mare is covered with moraines and fragments. The Bezengi Glacier is a source of the river

Cherek The Cherek () is a river in Kabardino-Balkaria in Russia, a right tributary of the Baksan ( Terek basin).Черек
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{{Reflist Glaciers of Russia Landforms of Kabardino-Balkaria Glaciers of the Caucasus

Morphology

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