Mount Karpinsky, or Karpinsky Mountain, is a peak in the circumpolar part of the

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. It is part of the Research Range, and lies on the boundary between the

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and the

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. Rising to a height of 1878 m, it is composed of

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s. The slopes are predominantly mountain tundra, but there are coniferous forests in the foothills. Mount Karpinsky was named for the geologist

Aleksandr Petrovich Karpinsky Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky (, trl. Aljeksandr Pjetrovič Karpinskij; 7 January 1847 O.S. 26 December 1846">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. 26 December 1846– 15 July 1936) was a pr ...

."Карпинского гора"
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Karpinsky Ural Mountains Landforms of Tyumen Oblast {{TyumenOblast-geo-stub

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