Mayakovsky Peak (russian: Пик Маяковского) is a peak in
Pamir Mountains
The Pamir Mountains are a mountain range between Central Asia and Pakistan. It is located at a junction with other notable mountains, namely the Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun, Hindu Kush and the Himalaya mountain ranges. They are among the world ...
.
It is located in the extreme south-west corner of Tajikistan's
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province (
Ishkoshim District), where the north–south
Ishkoshim Range
Ishkoshim Range, also Ishkashim Range (russian: Ишкашимский хребет), is a mountain range in Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan, in the extreme southwest corner of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province ( Ishkoshim District).
The ran ...
joins the east–west
Shakhdara Range
Shakhdara Range (russian: Шахдаринский хребет) is a mountain range in Tajikistan, part of the Pamir Mountain System.
The range lies in the extreme south-western Pamir in Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province. It ru ...
. Elevation 6,096 m. Discovered in the early 1930s by Soviet explorer
Pavel Luknitsky
Pavel (Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and Macedonian: Павел, Czech, Slovene, Romanian: Pavel, Polish: Paweł, Ukrainian: Павло, Pavlo) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). Pavel ...
, 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 (1893-1930).
Big Soviet Encyclopedia, on-line edition, in Russian
/ref> The 1947 Soviet expedition was led by V. Budenov.
See also
* List of mountains of Tajikistan
References
Mountains of Tajikistan
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region
Six-thousanders of the Pamir
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