Moscow Peak

Place in Tajikistan
Moscow Peak
Russian: Пик Москва
View from the south in 1973
View from the south in 1973
38°57′N 71°54′E / 38.950°N 71.900°E / 38.950; 71.900
CountryTajikistan

Moscow Peak, also Moskva Peak or Pik Moskva (Russian: Пик Москва and also Tajik: Қуллаи Москва), is a 6,785 m peak in the Peter I Range, western Pamir.

It is located in the south-east of Jirgatol district in Tajikistan's Region of Republican Subordination, about 10 km west of Ismail Samani Peak, Tajikistan's highest mountain.

Moscow Peak is also the name of two much smaller mountains in the United States and Australia:

  • Moscow Peak in the State of Arizona (Yavapai County), U.S.A. (2,343 m, 34.403082N, 112.396001W)
  • Moscow Peak in Victoria, Australia (1,647 m, 6.84401S, 148.1437E )

References

  • Location of Moscow Peak on geonames.org
  • Big Soviet Encyclopedia online edition (in Russian)
  • Moscow Peak in Encyclopædia Britannica Online, 2008.

External links

  • Photograph of Moscow peak on summitpost.org

38°5′0″N 71°54′0″E / 38.08333°N 71.90000°E / 38.08333; 71.90000

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