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
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
, part of the
Pamir Mountain System. The range takes its name from
Peter the Great (1672 – 1725).
Geography
Peter I Range is located in the south-east of
Jirgatol district in
Tajikistan
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
's
Region of Republican Subordination
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. 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
Academy of Sciences Range (russian: Хребет Академии Наук, ''Khrebet Akademiy Nauk;'' tg, Qatorkuhi Akademiyai Fanho) is a mountain range in the Western Pamirs of Tajikistan. It is stretched in a north-south direction and conside ...
at its eastern end.
Peter I Range
- article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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Peaks
Its highest summit is Moscow Peak (6,785 m). Other peaks are Leningrad Peak (6,507 m), Abalakov Peak (6,446 m), Oshanin Peak (6,389 m), Kirov Peak (6,372 m), Kuybyshev Peak (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 fr ...
Agasis Peak (5,877 m).
See also
*List of mountains in Tajikistan
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* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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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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