Karl Marx Peak

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Name = Karl Marx Peak
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Elevation = convert|6726|m|ft|0|lk=on
Location = Tajikistan, GBAO
Range = Shakhdara Range (Pamirs)
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First ascent = 1946 by Evgeniy Beletskiy et al.
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Listing = Ultra

Karl Marx Peak ( _tg. Қуллаи К. Маркс) rises to 6,726 m in the Shakhdara Range in Pamir Mountains, in the south-west of Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province (eastern part of Ishkoshim district), near Panj River on the border with Afghanistan. [ [http://bse.sci-lib.com/article059298.html "Big Soviet Encyclopedia", on-line edition] ru icon.] [ [http://encarta.msn.com/map_701589908/Pik_Karl_Marx.html "Pik Karl Marx" in "Encarta World Atlas".] ] The highest summit in the Shakhdara Range, it was discovered and named in 1937 by Soviet geologist and explorer of South-West Pamir Sergey Klunnikov. [ [http://poxod.ru/narration/beleckij/p_beleckij_snovagorypamqlc_a.html Discovery of Karl Marx Peak ru icon.] ] The ascent was delayed by the outbreak of World War II, and Karl Marx Peak was first climbed in 1946 by а group of Soviet alpinists led by Evgeniy Beletskiy. [ [http://www.alpklubspb.ru/persona/belecky.htm First ascent ru icon.] ]

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