Mayakovsky Peak () is a peak in

Pamir Mountains The Pamir Mountains are a Mountain range, range of mountains between Central Asia and South Asia. They are located at a junction with other notable mountains, namely the Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun Mountains, Kunlun, Hindu Kush and the Himalaya ...

. 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''. After the first ascent by Soviet alpinists in 1947, the peak was renamed in honor of the Soviet Russian poet

Vladimir Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky ( – 14 April 1930) was a Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, Russian Revolution, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Ru ...

(1893-1930).Big Soviet Encyclopedia, on-line edition, in Russian
/ref> The 1947 Soviet expedition was led by V. Budenov.

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Mountains of Tajikistan Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region Six-thousanders of the Pamir {{Tajikistan-geo-stub

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