Kyzylart Pass (russian: Кызыл-Арт; ky, Кызыл-Арт ашуусу) is a
mountain pass
A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge. Since many of the world's mountain ranges have presented formidable barriers to travel, passes have played a key role in trade, war, and both Human migration, human a ...
and border crossing in the
Trans-Alay Range
russian: Заалайский хребет
, etymology =
, photo = Alai Valley 1.jpg
, photo_caption = Trans-Alay Range and Alay Valley
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, country = Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
, state =
, region = Osh Province, Gorno-Badaksh ...
on the border of
Tajikistan
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
and
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and the People's Republic of China to the east. ...
. The highest point is 4,280 m (14,042 ft). The border checkpoint on the Kyrgyz side is Bor-Döbö.
Electronic visa information
accessed 31 January 2022. The area is typically rugged and dry. It is crossed by the Pamir Highway
The M41, known informally and more commonly as the Pamir Highway (russian: Памирский тракт, translit=Pamirsky Trakt ), is a road traversing the Pamir Mountains through Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan with a ...
which leads south from Sary-Tash in the Alay Valley
The Alay Valley ( ky, Алай өрөөнү, ) is a broad, dry valley running east–west across most of southern Osh Region, Kyrgyzstan. It spreads over a length of east–west. The valley extends in north–south direction with varying width ...
up onto the Pamir Pamir may refer to:
Geographical features
* Pamir Mountains, a mountain range in Central Asia
** Pamir-Alay, a mountain system in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, part of the Pamir Mountains
*A pamir (valley) is a high plateau or valley surro ...
plateau toward Karakol Lake and Murghab, Tajikistan. In the late nineteenth century the Russians explored and eventually occupied the Pamir plateau.
References
* Laurence Mitchell, Kyrgyzstan, Bradt travel guides, 2008
* Robert Middleton and Huw Thomas, Tajikistan and the High Pamirs, Odyssey Books, 2008
Gallery
File:Going up to Kyzil-Art pass (Pamir).jpg, Ascent to the pass
File:Yaks near Kizil-Art pass.jpg, Yaki on the pass
File:On the kizil-Art pass.jpg, Kilometers on the pass
File:Кызыларт.jpg, Pamir Highway near the Kyzyl Art Pass
Mountain passes of Tajikistan
Mountain passes of Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan border crossings
Mountain passes of the Pamir
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