Trans-Alay Range

Mountain range in the Pamir mountains, Tajikistan

Location in Tajikistan

CountryKyrgyzstan, TajikistanRegionOsh Province, Gorno-BadakshanGeologyAge of rockPaleozoic and MesozoicType of rockLimestone and schist

The Trans-Alay Range (Kyrgyz: Чоң Алай кырка тоосу, romanized: Chong Alay kyrka toosu; Russian: Заалайский хребет, romanized: Zaalaisky Khrebet; also 'Trans Alai') is the northernmost range of the Pamir Mountain System.

Geography

The Trans-Alay is located in the area where the Pamirs and the Tian Shan come together. This heavily glaciated range forms the border between Gorno-Badakshan region in Tajikistan and Osh Region, Kyrgyzstan, stretching eastwards until the border with China. To the north lies the Alay Valley and to the south, the river Muksu.^[1]

Peaks

The highest peak in the range is 7,134 m high Lenin Peak.^[2] The Kyzylart and Ters-Agar mountain passes geographically divide the range into three parts: the western —highest peak Sat Peak [de] (5,900 m), the central —with some of the highest summits, including Lenin Peak, Dzerzhinsky Peak [de] (6717 m), Oktyabrsy Peak [de] ( 6780 m), and Marshal Zhukov Peak (6,842 m),^[3] and the eastern — highest peak Kurumdy I summit (6,614 m).^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Ошская область:Энциклопедия [Encyclopedia of Osh Oblast] (in Russian). Frunze: Chief Editorial Board of Kyrgyz Soviet Encyclopedia. 1987. p. 448.
^ Yevgeniy Gippenreiter, Vladimir Shataev, Six and Seventhousanders of the Tien Shan and the Pamirs, in: Alpine Journal 1996
^ "Pik Marshal Zhukov". Peakware.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 13 March 2018.