The mountains formerly known as Mt Communism and Lenin Peak are in which mountain range?
"to the summit. Lenin Peak is the highest mountain in the Trans-Alay Range of Central Asia, and in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan it is exceeded only by Ismoil Somoni Peak (7,495 m). It was thought to be the highest point in the Pamirs in Tajikistan until 1933, when Ismoil Somoni Peak (known as ""Stalin Peak"" at the time) was climbed and found to be more than 300 metres higher. Two mountains in the Pamirs in China, Kongur Tagh (7,649 m) and Muztagh Ata (7,546 m), are higher than the Tajik summits. The peak was discovered in 1871 and originally"
"the work of further Soviet expeditions, it became clear by 1932 that they were not the same, and in 1933 the new peak, in the Academy of Sciences Range, was named Stalin Peak (), after Joseph Stalin. In 1962, as part of Khrushchev's nationwide de-Stalinization process, the name was changed to Communism Peak ( ), a name by which it is still commonly known. The name Communism Peak was officially dropped in 1998 in favour of the current name, commemorating the 9th century Samanid emir, Ismail Samani. The first ascent was made 3 September 1933 by the Soviet mountaineer Yevgeniy"
"Lenin Peak Lenin Peak (, ""Lenin Çoqusu"", لەنىن چوقۇسۇ; , ""Pik Lenina""; , ""qulla‘i Lenin/qullaji Lenin"", renamed қуллаи Абӯалӣ ибни Сино (qulla‘i Abûalî ibni Sino) in July 2006), or Ibn Sina (Avicenna) Peak, rises to 7,134 metres (23,406 ft) in Gorno-Badakhshan (GBAO) on the border of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and is the second-highest point of both countries. It is considered one of the less technical 7000 m peaks in the world to climb and it has by far the most ascents of any 7000 m or higher peak on Earth, with every year seeing hundreds of mountaineers make their way"
"Kremlin Hill Kremlin Hill (Russian: Кремлёвский холм [""Kremlyovskiy kholm""]; former name Borovitsky Hill - Боровицкий холм [""Borovitskiy kholm""]; also known as Borovitskiy Cape - Боровицкий мыс [""Borovitskiy mys""]) is one of the seven hills of Moscow. Altitude up to 145 m. The hill is situated in the city centre, at the confluence of the Moscow River and Neglinnaya River. The Red Square and the upland part of the Kitai-gorod are located on the hill. The Borovitskiy Hill derives its name from the Russian word ""бор"" (""bor"") - ""pinery"". The hill was named so because in ancient times the left bank"
"the Academy of Sciences Range at its eastern end. 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 Agassiz Peak (5,877 m). Peter I Range Peter I Range, Peter the First Range or Peter the Great Range ( or Хребет Петра Первого) is a mountain range in Tajikistan, part of the Pamir Mountain System. The range takes its name from Peter the Great (1672 – 1725). Peter I Range is located in the south-east of"
"southeast as the Tien Shan and Pamirs, formed an imposing natural barrier between the Soviet Union and its neighbors to the south. The highest point in the Soviet Union, at 7,495 meters, was Mount Communism (Pik Kommunizma) in the Pamirs near the border with Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China. The Pamirs and the Tien Shan were offshoots of the tallest mountain chain in the world, the Himalayas. Eastern Siberia and the Soviet Far East are also mountainous regions, especially the volcanic peaks of the long Kamchatka Peninsula, which jutted down into the Sea of Okhotsk. The Soviet Far East, the southern"
"North (approximately indicated on the Scheme): Lipkin's rocks route and NE Ridge; the classic North Face route; the route via Razdelnaya Peak and the NW Ridge. Lenin Peak Lenin Peak (, ""Lenin Çoqusu"", لەنىن چوقۇسۇ; , ""Pik Lenina""; , ""qulla‘i Lenin/qullaji Lenin"", renamed қуллаи Абӯалӣ ибни Сино (qulla‘i Abûalî ibni Sino) in July 2006), or Ibn Sina (Avicenna) Peak, rises to 7,134 metres (23,406 ft) in Gorno-Badakhshan (GBAO) on the border of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and is the second-highest point of both countries. It is considered one of the less technical 7000 m peaks in the world to climb and"
"mountain has been confused with the higher peak now called Ismoil Somoni, which for some years was called ""Pik Stalin"" and is better known as ""Pik Kommunizma"". A BBC quiz which was online in 2008 asks the question ""By what name was Mount Garmo in Tajikistan known when it was the highest point in the Soviet Union?"" and gives the answer ""Mount Communism"". In ""The Ascent of Mount Stalin"" (1937), Michael Romm and Alec Brown state that ""Darwas is renamed Pik Garmo, and Garmo is renamed Pik Stalin, the reasons given being far from convincing"". And a paper published by"
"named Mount Kaufmann after Konstantin Kaufman, the first Governor-General of Turkestan. In 1928, the mountain was renamed Lenin Peak after the Russian revolutionary and first leader of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin. In Tajikistan, the peak was renamed again in July 2006, and today it is officially called in Tajik ""Qullai Abuali ibni Sino"" (""қуллаи Абӯалӣ ибни Сино"", Ibn Sina Peak or, alternatively, Avicenna Peak) after Abu Ali ibn Sina (Avicenna). In Kyrgyzstan, the peak is still officially called ""Lenin Chokusu"" (""Ленин Чокусу"", Lenin Peak). However, in October 2017, Kyrgyz president Almazbek Atambayev called for renaming the peak ""Manas Peak"","
"the Victory Peak. His brother, Vitaly Abalakov, was also a famous alpinist. Yevgeniy Abalakov Yevgeniy Mikhaylovich Abalakov (; – March 23, 1948) was a Soviet alpinist and sculptor. Abalakov was born in Yeniseysk. He is noted for making the first ascent of the highest point of the Soviet Union - Stalin Peak (later renamed ""Communism Peak"" and eventually ""Ismoil Somoni Peak"", its current name) (7495 m) on September 3, 1933 as a member of the 26th detachment of the Tajik-Pamir Sovnarkom expedition. At the beginning of the German-Soviet War Abalakov went to the front. In the spring of 1948 Abalakov"
"Yevgeniy Abalakov Yevgeniy Mikhaylovich Abalakov (; – March 23, 1948) was a Soviet alpinist and sculptor. Abalakov was born in Yeniseysk. He is noted for making the first ascent of the highest point of the Soviet Union - Stalin Peak (later renamed ""Communism Peak"" and eventually ""Ismoil Somoni Peak"", its current name) (7495 m) on September 3, 1933 as a member of the 26th detachment of the Tajik-Pamir Sovnarkom expedition. At the beginning of the German-Soviet War Abalakov went to the front. In the spring of 1948 Abalakov died in Moscow, in obscure circumstances, while preparing for the ascent to"
"(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. Shakhdara Range Shakhdara Range () is a mountain range in Tajikistan, part of the Pamir Mountain System. The range lies in the extreme south-western Pamir in Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province. It runs roughly in the east-west direction between the Shakhdara River to the north and Panj on the border with Afghanistan to the south, separating the watersheds of both rivers and rising toward Mayakovskiy Peak (6,096 m) in the west and Karl Marx Peak (6,726"
"Stanovoy Range The Stanovoy Range (, ""Stanovoy khrebet""; ), also known as Sükebayatur and Sükhbaatar in Mongolian, or Outer Khingan Range is a mountain range located in southeastern parts of the Russian Far East. It runs south-west to north-east for over 900 km, from the Olyokma River in the west, to the Uchur River in the east. almost to the Sea of Okhotsk. It separates the watershed of the Arctic Ocean (via the Lena) from that of the Pacific Ocean (via the Amur). For this reason, it was the border between Russia and China from 1689 (Treaty of Nerchinsk) to"
"elevation of . Even the lowlands, which are located in the Fergana Valley in the far north and in Khatlon Province in the southwest, are well above sea level. In the Turkestan range, highest of the western chains, the maximum elevation is . The highest elevations of this range are in the east, near the border with Kyrgyzstan. That region is dominated by the peaks of the Pamir-Alay mountain system, including two of the three highest elevations in the former Soviet Union: Mount Lenin — and Mount Communism — . Several other peaks in the region also exceed . The"
"Abalakov. Ismoil Somoni Peak Ismoil Somoni Peak (Tajik: Қуллаи Исмоили Сомонӣ, ""Qulla-i Ismō‘il-i Sōmōnî/Qullaji Ismojili Somonī""; ; ) is the highest mountain in Tajikistan. It was within the territory of the former Russian Empire and the former Soviet Union, and was the highest mountain in the Soviet Union before the area became independent as Tajikistan. The mountain is named after Ismail Samani, a ruler of the Samanid dynasty. When the existence of a peak in the Soviet Pamir Mountains higher than Lenin Peak was first established in 1928, the mountain was tentatively identified with Garmo Peak. However, as the result"
"in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province (GBAO) in the east half of the country. The northern border is formed by the Trans-Alay Range (Independence Peak , Kyzylart Pass ). The highest peak is Ismoil Somoni Peak () (formerly known as Stalin Peak and Communism Peak), on the north-western edge of GBAO. It lies between Ibn Sina Peak () (also known as Lenin Peak) on the border with Kyrgyzstan to the north and Peak Korzhenevskaya () in Academy of Sciences Range () further south. The southern border is formed by the northernmost ridges of the Karakoram Range, with Mayakovskiy Peak (), Karl Marx"
"Ismoil Somoni Peak Ismoil Somoni Peak (Tajik: Қуллаи Исмоили Сомонӣ, ""Qulla-i Ismō‘il-i Sōmōnî/Qullaji Ismojili Somonī""; ; ) is the highest mountain in Tajikistan. It was within the territory of the former Russian Empire and the former Soviet Union, and was the highest mountain in the Soviet Union before the area became independent as Tajikistan. The mountain is named after Ismail Samani, a ruler of the Samanid dynasty. When the existence of a peak in the Soviet Pamir Mountains higher than Lenin Peak was first established in 1928, the mountain was tentatively identified with Garmo Peak. However, as the result of"
"of the founding of the Communist Youth movement Komsomol claimed to have climbed the highest peak in the area, the summit being reached on September 19 by L.Gutman, E.Ivanov and A.Sidorenko. They measured the altitude as 6900 meters, and named the peak ""Pik 20-ti letiya Komsomola"" (Peak of the 20th Anniversary of Komsomol). A survey by another team in 1943 found the peak to be 7439 meters high. The peak was renamed as ""Pik Pobedy"" (Victory's Peak) in 1946 to commemorate the Soviet victory in World War II. The significant difference in altitude led to the 1938 ascent being called"
"Sparrow Hills Sparrow Hills (, ), formerly known as Lenin Hills (, ) between 1935 and 1999, is a hill on the right bank of the Moskva River and one of the highest points in Moscow, reaching a height of above the river level. The observation platform, which gives a good panoramic view of the city, is on a steep bank above the river, or above sea level. The Luzhniki Stadium (formerly the Lenin Stadium), where the opening and closing ceremonies for the 1980 Summer Olympics took place, is right below, across the Moskva River. Next to it is the"
"Komini Peak Komini Peak ( \'vr&h ko-'mi-ni\) is a peak with an elevation of on the north slopes of Levski Peak, in the Tangra Mountains, in Livingston Island, Antarctica. The peak has precipitous rocky western slopes and was first climbed by Lyubomir Ivanov from Camp Academia by way of its 212-m high western rock wall on 21 December 2004. The feature is named after Komini Peak in Vitosha Mountain, Western Bulgaria. The peak is located at which is north of Levski Peak, northeast of Lyaskovets Peak, east of Zograf Peak and southeast of Lozen Nunatak, south of Ravda Peak, southwest"
"Chita. Yablonoi Mountains The Yablonoi Mountains or Yablonovy Mountains (Яблоновый хребет in Russian) is a mountain range in Siberia. It is in Transbaikal (mainly in Chita Oblast) in Russia. The range runs north-east from Mongolia, passing just to the east of Lake Baikal. The Yablonoi Mountains run for about 1600 kilometres before joining with the Stanovoi Range. The range forms the dividing line between the rivers that empty into the Arctic Ocean and those that empty into the Pacific. The range is not particularly tall or large, being long and thin. The tallest peaks are 'Bolshoy Sokhondo' at 2505м and"
"Snow Leopard award The Snow Leopard award () was a Soviet mountaineering award, given to very experienced climbers. It is still recognised in the Commonwealth of Independent States. To receive this award, a climber must summit all five peaks of 7000m and above located in the former Soviet Union. In Tajikistan's Pamir Mountains there are three Snow Leopard peaks, Ismail Samani Peak (formerly Communism Peak) , Peak Korzhenevskaya , and Ibn Sina Peak (formerly Lenin Peak) on the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border. In the Tian Shan there are two Snow Leopard peaks, Jengish Chokusu (formerly Peak Pobeda) in Kyrgyzstan (divided by the"
"first to raise the same national flag on each of them, in his case the Lithuanian flag. He organised his own trip to the Himalaya and climbed Mt. Everest alone, having registered as a photographer of the Nepalese Women Everest Expedition. He also made solo climbs to the peaks of Mt. McKinley and Aconcagua. Vitkauskas has also climbed the highest peaks in the former Soviet Union: Mt. Communism (7,495 m, now Ismoil Somoni) and Korzhenevskaya (7,105 m) in 1989 and Lenin (7,134 m, now Avicenna) and Khan Tengri (6,995 m) in 1990. He participated and organised expeditions to the mountains"
"Kosvinsky Kamen Mount Kosvinsky Kamen, Kosvinsky Mountain, Kosvinski Mountain, Kosvinsky Rock or Rostesnoy Rock () is a mountain in the northern Urals, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Its summit is bare of vegetation with an uneven rocky surface and small lakes fed by melting snow. The Kosva River flows from the mountain, hence the name. The ""Great Soviet Encyclopedia"" describes Kosvinsky Rock as ""mountain massif"" of height 1,519 m. Its constitution is pyroxenites and dunites of lower and middle Paleozoic era. The slopes are covered with conifers with some birch up to 900–1000 m, with alpine tundra above. According to a 1997"
"first geographical expedition which came nearest to the base of the future Lenin Peak in the early 20th century was arguably the expedition of Nikolai Leopol'dovich Korzhenevskiy. In September 1928, three mountaineers -the Germans and Karl Wien, and the Austrian - from a Soviet-German scientific expedition, made the first attempt to reach the highest point of the Trans-Alai Range, which at that time had the name Kaufman Peak. They started climbing upstream of the Saukdara river along the South slope of Trans-Alai Range also Trans-Alay Range. From the river head they continued climbing along the Greater Saukdara Glacier towards a"
"Altai Mountains The Altai Mountains (; also spelled Altay Mountains; , ""Altay tuular""; , ""Altai-yin niruɣu"" (Chakhar) or , ""Altain nuruu"" (Khalkha); , ""Altai’ tay’lary"", ; , ""Altajskije gory""; , , Xiao'erjing: ; ) are a mountain range in Central and East Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan come together, and are where the rivers Irtysh and Ob have their headwaters. The northwest end of the range is at 52° N and between 84° and 90° E (where it merges with the Sayan Mountains to the east), and extends southeast from there to about 45° N and 99° E,"
"Zhiguli Mountains The Zhiguli Mountains (; [""Zhigulyovskiye gory""]) or simply Zhiguli (), sometimes called The Zhiguli Heights - Жигулёвская возвышенность [""Zhigulyovskaya vozvyshennost""], are a range of wooded mountains located in Russia on the right bank of the Volga River, in the Samara bend. The mountains are an important source of limestone and oil (extracted since the Great Patriotic War (World War II)) and are also popular as a scenic area for local and regional tourism. Their altitude reaches a maximum of c. 1,240 ft (380 m). The range is named for a nearby town Zhigulyovka (no longer extant), itself probably"
"Seven hills of Moscow The Seven hills of Moscow () is a historic name of several elevated sections of terrain, on top of which Moscow was built. The legend of Seven Hills (as an analogy between Moscow and Rome) has been known since the 16th century, when they began to actively develop the hilly terrain dissected by numerous rivers and ravines. Usually, the term ""Seven Hills"" refers to the Borovitsky Hill (a.k.a. Kremlin Hill), the so-called Three Mountains (the districts of Presnya and Vagankovo), Tver Hill a.k.a. Strastnaya Gorka (today’s Pushkin Square), Sretensky Hill a.k.a. Sukharevsky Hill (today’s Sukharevskaya Square),"
"km north of Semela Ridge and 13 km northeast of Mount Bain. British mapping in 1976. Aleksandrov Peak Aleksandrov Peak (, ‘Aleksandrov Vrah’ \a-lek'san-drov 'vr&h\) is the mostly ice-covered peak of elevation 2100 m in the west foothills of Bruce Plateau on Loubet Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It has rounded top and steep, partly ice-free south, west and north slopes, and surmounts Erskine Glacier to the south and west, and its tributary Byway Glacier to the southeast. The peak is named after Todor Aleksandrov (1881-1924), a leader of the Bulgarian liberation movement in Macedonia. Aleksandrov Peak is located at"
"higher degree of Doctor of Science from the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Science, and in 1992 was awarded the title Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources by the Russian Academy. Mountains and glaciology were two of the biggest passions in Mark’s life. He went with Professor Shumsky to Antarctica, where he overwintered twice. He conducted glaciological studies in many of the high mountains of Asia and climbed Peak Communism (, now renamed Ismoil Somoni Peak) in 1977, the highest mountain in the former Soviet Union. Mark conducted glaciological research for more than 21 days on the"
"Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic The Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic or Mountain ASSR () was a short-lived autonomous republic within the Russian SFSR in the Northern Caucasus that existed from January 20, 1921, to July 7, 1924. The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus was created from parts of the Kuban and Terek Oblasts by the indigenous nationalities after the Russian Revolution; however, Soviet rule was installed on this territory after the Red Army conquered the Northern Caucasus in the course of the Russian Civil War, and the former republic was transformed into a Soviet one. The area of"
"years. The first was by just another 6 meters, when on 15 September 1928 the German mountaineers Karl Wien and and the Austrian mountaineer and cartographer reached the summit of the Kaufman Peak in the Pamirs, a mountain up to that year thought to be the highest mountain in the Soviet Union. After the expedition, it was renamed Lenin Peak. The next advance was a by-product of the international expedition to Kanchenjunga led by Günter Dyhrenfurth in 1930. The attempt on Kanchenjunga itself was abandoned after an avalanche had killed Chettan Sherpa, but members of the team stayed to climb"
"Lemon Range The Lemon Range or Lemon Mountains () is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality. The range was named by Gino Watkins after Captain Percy Lemon (1898–1932) of the Royal Corps of Signals, a member of the 1930-31 British Arctic Air Route Expedition led by Watkins. Although not as high as the Watkins Range to the east or the Lindbergh Range to the northeast, the Lemon Range has become a popular place among climbers because it has some of the steepest rock peaks in Greenland and"