Ismoil Somoni Peak

Ismoil Somoni Peak
Pik Imeni Ismail Samani
Ismoil Somoni Peak (then known as Communism Peak) taken in 1989.
Highest point
Elevation	7,495 m (24,590 ft) Ranked 50th
Prominence	3,402 m (11,161 ft) Ranked 54th
Listing	Country high point Ultra
Geography
Ismoil Somoni Peak Northwestern Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan
Parent range	Pamirs
Climbing
First ascent	9 September 1933 by Yevgeniy Abalakov
Easiest route	rock/snow/ice climb

Ismoil Somoni Peak (Tajik: Қуллаи Исмоили Сомонӣ, Qullai Ismoili Somonī; Russian: пик Исмаила Самани pik Ismaila Samani) is the highest mountain in Tajikistan and in the former Russian Empire and later in the Soviet Union, named after Ismail Samani, the ancestor of the Samanid dynasty.

When the existence of a peak in the Soviet Pamir Mountains higher than Lenin Peak was first established in 1928, the mountain was tentatively identified with Garmo Peak; but as the result of the work of further Soviet expeditions, it became clear by 1932 that they were not the same, and in 1933 the new peak, in the Akademiya Nauk Range, was named Stalin Peak (Pik Stalina, пик Сталина), after Joseph Stalin. In 1962, the name was changed to Communism Peak (Tajik: Пики Коммунизм, Piki Kommunizm; Russian: пик Коммуни́зма, Pik Kommunizma), and in 1998 to its current name.

The first ascent was made 9 September 1933 by the Soviet mountaineer Yevgeniy Abalakov.

There are glaciers on Ismoil Somoni Peak.

See also

• Lenin Peak
• Peak Korzhenevskaya
• Mount Garmo
• Patkhor Peak

References

• The Free Dictionary: Imeni Ismail Samani Peak

External links

• "Pik Kommunizma". SummitPost.org.
• "Pik Imeni Ismail Samani" Peakware.com