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Yevgeniy Mikhaylovich Abalakov (russian: Евгений Михайлович Абалаков; 23 March 1948
Great Russian Encyclopedia
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(2006), Moscow
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: Bol'shaya Rossiyskaya Enciklopediya Publisher, vol. 1, p. 9) was a
Soviet
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mountaineer
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and
sculptor
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.
Abalakov was born in
Yeniseysk
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History
Yeniseysk was founded in 1619 as a stockaded town—the first town on the Yenisei ...
. He is noted for making the first ascent of the highest point of the Soviet Union -
Stalin Peak (later renamed ''Communism Peak'' and eventually ''Ismoil Somoni Peak'', its current name) (7,495 m) on 3 September 1933 as a member of the 26th detachment of the
Tajik
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-
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Sovnarkom
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expedition. At the beginning of the
German-Soviet War
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Abalakov went to the front. Abalakov died on 23 March, 1948 in Moscow, in obscure circumstances, while preparing for the ascent to the
Victory Peak. His brother,
Vitaly Abalakov, was also a famous mountaineer.
Abalakov was buried at
Novodevichy Cemetery
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in Moscow.
Bibliography
* (in Russian) Анатолий Ферапонтов
''Восходители. Евгений Абалаков''.* (in Russian) Алексей Абалаков. ''Тайна гибели Евгения Абалакова - непрочитанные страницы истории'' Москва, МАКС Пресс 2000. г
* (in Russian
References
External links
Photo-gallery of expeditionMountaineering in the U.S.S.R. By E.Beletsky
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Soviet mountain climbers
Soviet explorers
People from Yeniseysk Governorate
People from Yeniseysky District
1907 births
1948 deaths
Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery