Transalai Mountains
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The Transalai Mountains; in the foreground the river Kysylsuu (Wachsch) and the Alaital |
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Highest peak | Lenin Peak ( 7134 m ) | |
location |
Tajikistan , Kyrgyzstan , Xinjiang ( PR China ) |
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part of | Pamir | |
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Coordinates | 39 ° 20 ′ N , 72 ° 55 ′ E |
The Transalai Mountains , the Transalaikette or the Transalai ( Kyrgyz Чоң Алай кырка тоосу ) is a high mountain range in the north of the Pamir Mountains , which runs along the border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan . The extreme east of the mountain range extends over the border with the People's Republic of China .
The mountain range has a length of 240 km. It extends between the Alaital in the north, through which the Kysylsuu flows, and the Muksu river valley in the south. The northern flank of the eastern Transalai is drained by the Kysylsuu , the source of the Kashgar , and the southern flank by the Markansu .
The Transalai Mountains are divided into three sections by the two passes Tersagar and Kyzylart . In the middle section lies the highest peak of the Transalai, the 7134 m high Lenin Peak .
In the middle section of the Transalai, the Zulumart chain branches off to the south. To the southeast lies the Sarikol chain , to the southwest the chain of the Academy of Sciences .
Mountains (selection)
The following is a selection of the highest mountains, sorted in west-east direction (in italics peaks with a lower notch height):
Western part:
- Pik Sat , 5900 m
Central part:
- Peak Leipzig , 5725 m
- Dzerzhinsky peak , 6717 m
- Lenin peak , 7134 m
- Marshal Zhukov of Spades , 6842 m
- Jedinstwa Peak , 6673 m
- Oktyabrsky peak , 6780 m
- Kyzylagyn , 6683 m
- Trapezija peak , 6048 m
Eastern part:
- Kurumdy Peak , 6614 m
- Sarja Vostoka peak , 6349 m
- Leibniz Peak , 5797 m
Passports
- Kyzylart , 4280 m , Pamir Highway , ( ⊙ )
- Tersagar , 3598 m , ( ⊙ )
literature
- Six and Seventhousanders of the Tien Shan and the Pamirs, Yevgeniy Gippenreiter, Vladimir Shataev, Alpine Journal 1996 PDF 4.55 MB
- Map Pamir 1: 100,000 · Lenin peak · Leipzig peak · Western Trans-Alai ridge (PDF; 82 kB) ISBN 978-3-910181-93-9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Article Transalai Mountains in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)