Peter I Range, Peter the First Range or Peter the Great Range (russian: Хребет Петра I or Хребет Петра Первого) is a mountain range in

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

, part of the Pamir Mountain System. The range takes its name from

Peter the Great Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...

(1672 – 1725).

Geography

Peter I Range is located in the south-east of

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Region of Republican Subordination tg, Ноҳияҳои тобеи ҷумҳурӣ , native_name_lang = , other_name = ناحیه های تابع جمهوری , settlement_type = Region , image_skyline = , ...

. It forms a westerly extension of the northern Pamirs, separating the watersheds of the Surchob in the north and the Obikhingou river in the south. The range stretches in a roughly east–west direction for about 200 km, connecting with the

Academy of Sciences Range Academy of Sciences Range (russian: Хребет Академии Наук, ''Khrebet Akademiy Nauk;'' tg, Qatorkuhi Akademiyai Fanho) is a mountain range in the Western Pamirs of Tajikistan. It is stretched in a north-south direction and conside ...

at its eastern end.Peter I Range
- article from the

Great Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; ) is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Bolshaya rossiyskaya e ...

Peaks

Its highest summit is Moscow Peak (6,785 m). Other peaks are

Leningrad Peak Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

(6,507 m),

Abalakov Peak Abalakov is a surname. People with this surname include: * Alexander Abalakov (born 1959), Russian politician * Vitaly Abalakov (1906-1986), Soviet mountaineer * Yevgeniy Abalakov Yevgeniy Mikhaylovich Abalakov (russian: Евгений Миха ...

(6,446 m), Oshanin Peak (6,389 m),

Kirov Peak Kirov may refer to: *Sergei Kirov (1886–1934), Soviet Bolshevik leader in Leningrad after whom all other entries are named *Kirov (surname) Places Armenia *Amrakits or Kirov *Taperakan or Kirov Azerbaijan * Kirov, Baku * Kirov, Lankaran *Kirov, ...

(6,372 m),

Kuybyshev Peak Kuybyshev or Kuibyshev may refer to: People * Valerian Kuybyshev (1888–1935), Russian revolutionary *Nikolay Kuibyshev (''Kuybyshev'') (1893–1938), Russian Red Army Komkor; brother of Valerian Places Several places in the Soviet Union were na ...

(6,189 m), and the

ultra-prominent An ultra-prominent peak, or Ultra for short, is a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more; it is also called a P1500. The prominence of a peak is the minimum height of climb to the summit on any route from a higher peak, or fro ...

Agasis Peak (5,877 m).

References

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Shear-wave polarizations in the Peter the First Range indicating crack-induced anisotropy in a thrust-fault regime
Mountain ranges of Tajikistan Districts of Republican Subordination Pamir Mountains {{tajikistan-geo-stub

Geography

Peaks

See also

References

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