Shakhdara Range (russian: Шахдаринский хребет) 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 lies in the extreme south-western

Pamir Pamir may refer to: Geographical features * Pamir Mountains, a mountain range in Central Asia ** Pamir-Alay, a mountain system in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, part of the Pamir Mountains *A pamir (valley) is a high plateau or valley surro ...

in 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 percen ...

. It runs roughly in the east–west direction between the Shakhdara River to the north with DarshayDara, IShkashim and

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on the border with

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to the south, separating the watersheds of both rivers and rising toward Mayakovskiy Peak (6,096 m) in the west and

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 ...

(6,726 m) in the east. Other high peaks of the range are Tajikistan Peak (6,565 m) and Engels Peak (6,510 m).Shakhdara Range
- article from the

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The range takes its name (in both English and Russian) from the Shakhdara River, and is sometimes erroneously called Shakhdarin Range (or Shakhdarin Mountains), a corruption of the Russian name.

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Mountain ranges of Tajikistan Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region Pamir Mountains {{tajikistan-geo-stub

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