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Stalin Peak (Ismoil Somoni Peak) (1933)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Stalin Peak”
1933 — The Soviet Union’s highest mountain, at 7,495 m in the Pamirs, was named Stalin Peak. That September, Yevgeny Abalakov of Nikolai Gorbunov’s Tajik–Pamir expedition made its first ascent. The mountain became Communism Peak in 1962 and is now Ismoil Somoni Peak.
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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