Kyzyl Art Pass

Kyzyl Art Pass
Welcome at the border crossing at the Kyzyl-Art-Pass.
Compass direction	North	south
Pass height	4250  m
region	Osh Region ( Kyrgyzstan )	autonomous province of Berg-Badakhshan ( Tajikistan )
Watershed	Kyzylsuu	Markansu
Valley locations	Sarytash
expansion	Pamir Highway
Mountains	Transalai Mountains
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Coordinates	39 ° 23 '4 "  N , 73 ° 19' 21"  E Coordinates: 39 ° 23 '4 "  N , 73 ° 19' 21"  E

Route of the Pamir Highway

The Kyzyl-Art-Pass is a 4250  m high mountain pass on the Pamir Highway in the Transalai chain in the Pamir .

It is located on the border between the Central Asian republics of Kyrgyzstan in the north and Tajikistan in the south and connects the Kyrgyz province ( Oblast ) Osh with the autonomous province of Berg-Badakhshan in the extreme east of Tajikistan. The pass between these very sparsely populated areas is not very busy.

The pass is located about 50 km south of the Kyrgyz town of Sarytasch , on the section of the Pamir Highway from Kyrgyz Osh in the Ferghana Valley to Chorugh in Tajikistan , which was completed in 1932 . Coming from the north in the picturesque, wide Alai Valley between the Alai Mountains and the Transalai range of the Pamir on the upper reaches of the Kysylsuu , the ascent to the pass is quite flat. On the south side down into the high mountain desert valley Markansu , however, the route is relatively steep.

Web links

• http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enc_geo/2747/%D0%9A%D1%8B%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BB (russ.)

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  Ascent to the pass

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  Yaks on the pass

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  Kilometers at the pass

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  Pamir tract near the Kyzyl-Art pass

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wording (in Russian): "The people of Berg-Badachschan greet you."
2. ↑ Markansu Desert - Valley of Tornadoes, at wondermondo.com
3. ↑ KW Stanjukowitsch: Markansu. Valley of death. Research trips in the Pamir and Tienschan. VEB FA Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1961