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 Gorno-Badakhshan, officially the Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region in eastern Tajikistan, in the Pamir Mountains. It makes up nearly forty-five percent of the country's land area but only two percent of its popul ...

(

Ishkoshim District Ishkoshim District or Nohiya-i Ishkoshim (, ) is a district in eastern Tajikistan, in the extreme south-west of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO). It borders Afghanistan along the river Panj to the south and to the west.''Republic of ...

), where the north–south Ishkoshim Range joins the east–west

Shakhdara Range Shakhdara Range () 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 runs roughly in the east–west direction betw ...

. 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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