Kyzylagyn

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Kyzylagyn
height 6683  m
location Mountain Badakhshan ( Tajikistan )
Mountains Transalai Mountains ( Pamir )
Dominance 6.46 km →  Octyabrsky Peak
Notch height 753 m ↓  ( 5930  m )
Coordinates 39 ° 20 '50 "  N , 73 ° 2' 33"  E Coordinates: 39 ° 20 '50 "  N , 73 ° 2' 33"  E
Kyzylagyn (Tajikistan)
Kyzylagyn
First ascent 1956, V. Elchibekov

The Kyzylagyn ( Russian Кызылагын ) is one of the highest mountains in the central section of the Transalai chain in the northern part of the Pamir (Central Asia).

location

The 6,683  m high main summit rises 14.2 km east of Lenin Peak , a few meters south of the main ridge, on Tajik territory. The Oktjabrski glacier runs on its western flank . Beyond this are the two peaks of Pik Oktjabrski and Pik Jedinstwa .

Minor peaks

The 6624  m high eastern summit ( ) is located 2.58 km east-northeast of the main summit on the state border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. From the east summit a ridge branches off to the south, which leads to Pik Trapezija ( 6048  m ).

Ascent history

The mountain was first climbed in 1956 by a Soviet mountaineering group led by V. Elchibekov.

Individual evidence

  1. Yevgeniy Gippenreiter, Vladimir Shataev: Six and Seventhousanders of the Tien Shan and the Pamirs (PDF 4.6 MB) Alpine Journal, 1996, 122-130.