Samiksha Jaiswal (Editor)

Shakhdara Range

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Elevation
  
6,726 m (22,067 ft)

Highest point
  
Karl Marx Peak

Type of rock
  
Metamorphic rock

Mountains
  
Karl Marx Peak

Age of rock
  
Paleozoic

Country
  
Tajikistan

Parent range
  
Pamir Mountains

Shakhdara Range

Similar
  
Pamir Mountains, Karl Marx Peak, Trans‑Alay Range, Independence Peak, Fedchenko Glacier

Shakhdara Range (Russian: Шахдаринский хребет) is a mountain range in Tajikistan, part of the Pamir Mountain System.

Map of Shakhdara Range, Tajikistan

The range lies in the extreme south-western Pamir in Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province. It runs roughly in the east-west direction between the Shakhdara River to the north and Panj on the border with Afghanistan to the south, separating the watersheds of both rivers and rising toward Mayakovskiy Peak (6,096 m) in the west and Karl Marx Peak (6,726 m) in the east. Other high peaks of the range are Engels Peak (6510 m) and Mayakovsky Peak (6096 m).

The range takes its name (in both English and Russian) from the Shakhdara River, and is sometimes erroneously called Shakhdarin Range (or Shakhdarin Mountains), a corruption of the Russian name.

References

Shakhdara Range Wikipedia