- Akademiya Nauk Range
Geobox|Range
name=Akademiya Nauk Range
Хребет Академии Наук
native_name=
image_caption=Ismoil Somoni Peak in 1989
country=Tajikistan
region_type=
region=
parent=Pamir Mountains
geology=sedimentary andmetamorphic rock s
period=Paleozoic
orogeny=
highest=Ismoil Somoni Peak
highest_elevation=7495
highest_lat_d=38|highest_lat_m=55|highest_lat_s=|highest_lat_NS=N
highest_long_d=72|highest_long_m=01|highest_long_s=|highest_long_EW=E
map_caption=Akademiya Nauk Range ( _ru. Хребет Академии Наук, Tajik: Qatorkuhi Akademiyai Fanho) is a
mountain range in the Western Pamirs ofTajikistan . It is stretched in the meridianal direction and considered to be the core of the Pamir mountain system.The highest peak of the range is the
Ismoil Somoni Peak . It was also the highest peak in the formerSoviet Union . The length of the Akademiya Nauk Range is about 110 km. The crest of the range has an Alpine-like relief with 24 summits more than 6,000 m in height. The lowest saddle point, Kamaloyak (Камалояк), is at the altitude of 4,340 m (14,240 ft).The range is formed with sedimentary and
metamorphic rock s of thePaleozoic Era and partiallygranite s. It is covered with permanent snow, which feeds a large number of bigglacier s. The total area of the glacial ice is around 1,500 km². [ [http://bse.sci-lib.com/article005026.html "Big Soviet Encyclopedia", on-line edition, in Russian.] ]The Akademiya Nauk Range was discovered by Russian geographer and Pamir explorer
Nikolai Korzhenevskiy and named after theSoviet Academy of Sciences in 1927.ee also
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Ismoil Somoni Peak
*Peak Korzhenevskaya
*Garmo Peak References
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