Mayakovsky Peak (russian: Пик Маяковского) is a peak in
Pamir Mountains
The Pamir Mountains are a mountain range between Central Asia and Pakistan. It is located at a junction with other notable mountains, namely the Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun, Hindu Kush and the Himalaya mountain ranges. They are among the world ...
.
It is located in the extreme south-west corner of Tajikistan's
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province
Gorno-Badakhshan, officially the Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region,, abbr. / is an autonomous region in eastern Tajikistan, in the Pamir Mountains. It makes up nearly forty-five percent of the country's land area, but only two perce ...
(
Ishkoshim District), where the north–south
Ishkoshim Range joins the east–west
Shakhdara Range. Elevation 6,096 m. Discovered in the early 1930s by Soviet explorer
Pavel Luknitsky, who gave it a figurative name, ''Three-Headed Peak''. After the first ascent by Soviet alpinists in 1947, the peak was renamed in honor of the Soviet Russian poet
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (, ; rus, Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский, , vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ məjɪˈkofskʲɪj, Ru-Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky.ogg, links=y; – 14 Apr ...
(1893-1930).
Big Soviet Encyclopedia, on-line edition, in Russian
/ref> The 1947 Soviet expedition was led by V. Budenov.
See also
*List of mountains of Tajikistan Peaks
;Pamir-Alay
* Pamir Mountains
** Academy of Sciences Range
*** Ismoil Somoni Peak
*** Peak Korzhenevskaya (Ozodi)
*** Mount Garmo
** Rushan Range
*** Patkhor Peak
** Shakhdara Range
*** Mayakovskiy Peak
*** Karl Marx Peak
** Trans-Alay ...
References
Mountains of Tajikistan
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region
Six-thousanders of the Pamir
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