Ismoil Somoni Peak
Ismoil Somoni Peak (then known as Communism Peak ) taken in 1989.
Ismoil Somoni Peak
Elevation	7,495 metres (24,590 ft) Ranked 50th
Location	Tajikistan, northwestern Gorno-Badakhshan
Range	Pamirs
Prominence	3,402 m (11,161 ft)
Coordinates	38°55′00″N 72°01′00″E / 38.9166667°N 72.0166667°E / 38.9166667; 72.0166667Coordinates: 38°55′00″N 72°01′00″E / 38.9166667°N 72.0166667°E / 38.9166667; 72.0166667
First ascent	September 9, 1933 Yevgeniy Abalakov
Easiest route	rock/snow/ice climb
Listing	Country high point Ultra

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 Soviet Union, named after Ismoil Somoni, the ancestor of the Samanid dynasty.

When the existence of a peak in the Soviet Pamir Mountains higher than Lenin Peak (now called Ibn Sina 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, from 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, Russian: Pik Kommunizma, пик Коммуни́зма), and in 1998 to its current name.

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

There are glaciers on Ismoil Somoni Peak.

[edit] See also

• Lenin Peak (Ibn Sina Peak), 23,508 ft (7,165 m)
• Peak Korzhenevskaya, 23,310 ft (7,105 m).
• Mount Garmo, 21,637 ft (6,595 m)

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