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, 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
Jirgatol district
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in
Tajikistan's
Region of Republican Subordination. 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 at its eastern end.
Peter I Range
- article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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).
See also
* List of mountains in Tajikistan
References
External links
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
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