Chain of the Academy of Sciences

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Chain of the Academy of Sciences
Below the peak Ismoil Somoni

Below the peak Ismoil Somoni

Highest peak Pik Ismoil Somoni ( 7495  m )
location Tajikistan
part of Pamir
Academy of Sciences chain (Tajikistan)
Chain of the Academy of Sciences
Coordinates 38 ° 57 '  N , 72 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 38 ° 57 '  N , 72 ° 1'  E
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Chain of the Academy of Sciences in the Pamirs

The chain of the Academy of Sciences ( Russian Академии Наук хребет ) is a mountain range in the west of the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan .

The mountain range has a length of 110 km. 24 peaks exceed the 6000 m mark. Several large glaciers cover the mountain range, including the Fedchenko Glacier and the Garmo Glacier . The total glacier area is 1500 km². The Russian geographer Nikolai Leopoldowitsch Korschenewski named the mountain range in 1927 in honor of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR .

Mountains (selection)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c Article Chain of the Academy of Sciences in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D5026~2a%3D~2b%3DKette%20der%20Akademie%20der%20Sciences