Engels Peak is a mountain in the Shakhdara Range of the South Western Pamir Mountain System. The mountain is flanked by Glacier Naspar (5.1 km²) in the north and Kishtidzharob Glacier (8.3 km²) in the south.

History

Engels Peak was originally known as the Queen's Peak, after Empress Maria Feodorovna. During the Soviet era it was renamed Engels Peak, after the German philosopher

Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels ( ,"Engels"
'' Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...

Karl Marx Peak Karl Marx Peak (russian: Пик Карла Маркса; tg, Қуллаи Карл Маркс) rises to in the Shakhdara Range in Pamir Mountains, in the south-west of Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province (eastern part of Ishkosh ...

is close to Engels peak. The first recorded ascent was in 1954 by a team of Georgian climbers led by Maxim Gvarliani.

References

{{reflist Six-thousanders of the Pamir