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Peak Communism in Tadjikistan, Central Asia

Peak Communism ( Pik Kommunizma, Ismoil Somoni Peak, Pik Imeni Ismail Samani ) 

At 7495 metres it is the highest mountain in Tajikistan and in the former Soviet Union. 

When the existence of a peak in the Soviet Pamir Mountains higher than Independence Peak was first established the new peak, was named Stalin Peak  after Joseph Stalin.

The name was changed to Communism Peak ( Pik Kommunizma ) and then to Ismoil Somoni Peak ( Pik Imeni Ismal Samani ) after Ismoil Somoni, the ancestor of the Samanid dynasty.

It is one of the 5 Snow Leopard Peaks.

 


 

Peak Communism in Tadjikistan, Central Asia
Peak
 Communism

(  Ismoil
  Somoni
 Peak )

7495 metres

in

Tajikistan,

Central Asia


Access route for Peak Communism in Tadjikistan, Central Asia
Peak
 Communism
access
route


Map of Tajikistan :: Asia Climbing Info : World Mountains Gallery : 7000ers


    • The Snow Leopard Mountains:-

    Within the borders of the old Soviet Union ( USSR ), there are five mountains measuring over 7000 metres - all located in Central Asia. If you climb all 5 of them, then you achieve the title "Snow Leopard" - an indication that you are a top rank climber. For many Russian alpinists the completion of the Snow Leopard peaks is a major objective.

    • The five Snow Leopard mountains are:-

  • Pik Kommunizma ( 7495 m ) Tajikistan
  • Pik Pobeda ( 7345 m ) China / Kyrgyzstan
  • Pik Lenin ( 7134 m ) Tajikistan / Kyrgyzstan
  • Pik Korzhenevsky ( 7105 m ) Tajikistan
  • Khan Tengri ( 6995 m ) Kazakhstan / Kyrgyzstan

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