Yazgulem Range ( tg, Пули Язгулем) is a mountain range of the western

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 ...

.Big Soviet Encyclopedia, on-line edition, in Russian
/ref> It is located in Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province stretches for about 170 km between the

Yazgulyam River The Yazghulom ( tg, Язғулом ''Yazghulom'') is a river in Vanj district, western Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan. It is a right tributary of the Panj (upper Oxus). The river is long and has a basin area of .Bartang River The Bartang (Russian and Tajik: Бартанг) is a river of Central Asia, tributary to the Panj and consequently to the Amu Darya. In its upper reaches, it is also known as the Murghab and Aksu; it flows through the Wakhan in Afghanistan, the ...

in the western Pamirs. The range rises in a north-eastern direction from the border with Afghanistan toward its highest elevation at

Independence Peak Independence Peak or Qullai Istiqlol ( tg, Қуллаи Истиқлол), at , is the seventh-highest peak in the Pamir Mountains,

, former 'Revolution Peak' (6,974 m). The average elevation ranges between 4,500 and 6,000 m. Glaciers cover about 630 km² of the range, including the

Fedchenko Glacier The Fedchenko Glacier (russian: Ледник Федченко; tg, Пиряхи Федченко) is a large glacier in the Yazgulem Range, Pamir Mountains, of north-central Gorno-Badakhshan province, Tajikistan. The glacier is long and narrow, ...

stretching northwards.

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Mountain ranges of Tajikistan Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region Pamir Mountains {{Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province

See also

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