Mayakovsky Peak

Location in Tajikistan

Highest pointElevation6,096 m (20,000 ft)Prominence1,154 m (3,786 ft)

Coordinates37°1′21″N 71°42′53″E / 37.02250°N 71.71472°E / 37.02250; 71.71472GeographyLocationIshkoshim District, Gorno-Badakhshan, TajikistanParent rangeIshkoshim Range (Pamirs)ClimbingFirst ascent1947 by Soviet alpinists led by V. BudenovEasiest routerock / snow / ice climb

Mayakovsky Peak (Russian: Пик Маяковского) is a peak in Pamir Mountains.

It is located in the extreme south-west corner of Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province (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.^[1] After the first ascent by Soviet alpinists in 1947, the peak was renamed in honor of the Soviet Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930).^[2] The 1947 Soviet expedition was led by V. Budenov.^[3]^[4]

References

^ Explorations in South-Western Pamir since 1930
^ Big Soviet Encyclopedia, on-line edition, in Russian
^ Michal Kleslo. "Mayakovsky (6,096m), South Face, Czech Route". American Alpine Journal, 2012, vol. 54.
^ Yevgeniy Gippenreiter, Vladimir Shataev. "Six and Seventhousanders of the Tien Shan and the Pamirs" (PDF 4,6 MB). Alpine Journal, 1996, 122–130.