{{Short description|Mountain range in Tajikistan}} {{Infobox mountain | name=Tajik National Academy of Sciences Range<br />Хребет Академии Наук<br />Qatorkuhi Akademiyai Fanho | native_name= | image= Pik Kommunizma.jpg | image_caption= | country=[[Tajikistan]] | region_type= | region= | parent=[[Pamir Mountains]] | geology=[[sedimentary rock|sedimentary]] and [[metamorphic rock]]s | age=Paleozoic | orogeny= | highest=[[Ismoil Somoni Peak]] | elevation_m=7495 | coordinates = {{coord|38|55|N|72|01|E|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | map= | map_caption= }} '''Tajik National Academy of Sciences Range''' ({{langx|ru|Хребет Национальной академии наук Таджикистана}}, {{langx|tg|Қаторкӯҳи Академияи миллии илмҳои Тоҷикистон;}} until 31 July, 2023 '''Academy of Sciences Range''')<ref>[https://your.tj/polnyj-spisok-novyh-nazvanij-3-5-tysjach-geograficheskih-obektov-v-tadzhikistan/ Сырдарья стала рекой Сир, ледник Федченко – Ванджях. Полный список новых названий 3,5 тысяч географических объектов в Таджикистан]</ref> is a [[mountain range]] in the Western [[Pamir Mountains|Pamirs]] of [[Tajikistan]]. It is stretched in a [[meridian (geography)|north-south]] direction and considered to be the core of the Pamir mountain system.
==Geography== The highest [[Pyramidal peak|peak]] of the range is the [[Ismoil Somoni Peak]]. It was also the highest peak in the former [[Soviet Union]]. The length of the Academy of Sciences Range is about 110 km. The crest of the range has an [[Alps|Alpine]]-like [[Terrain|relief]] with 24 [[Topographical summit|summit]]s more than 6,000 m in height. The lowest [[Mountain pass|saddle point]], '''Kamaloyak''' (Камалояк), is at the altitude of 4,340 m (14,240 ft).
The range is formed of [[sedimentary rock|sedimentary]] and [[metamorphic rock]]s of the [[Paleozoic Era]], and partially [[granite]]s. It is covered by permanent snow, which feeds a large number of big [[glacier]]s. The total area of the glacial ice is around 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>.<ref>[http://bse.sci-lib.com/article005026.html ''Big Soviet Encyclopedia''], on-line edition, in Russian.</ref>
==History== The Academy of Sciences Range was first mapped by Russian geographer and Pamir explorer [[Nikolai Korzhenevskiy]] and named after the [[Soviet Academy of Sciences]] in 1927.
==See also== *[[list of mountains of Tajikistan]] *[[Ismoil Somoni Peak]] *[[Peak Korzhenevskaya]] *[[Mount Garmo]]
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