Nikolai Leopol'dovich Korzhenevskiy , 1879 – October 31, 1958), born in Vitebsk Guberniya,
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), died in
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. A famous Russian and Soviet geographer, glaciologist,
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explorer. His exploration of
PamirPamir may refer to:* a pamir, a U-shaped grassy valley in the Pamir Mountains**Great Pamir, a high valley in the Wakhan on the border of Afghanistan and Tajikistan**Little Pamir, a high valley in the Wakhan, Afghanistan...
began in 1903, with support from the military command in the region. Between 1903 and 1928 Korzhenevskiy organized eleven expeditions to various parts of Pamir. In August 1910 he discovered one of the highest peaks in Pamir Mountains, which he named
Peak KorzhenevskayaPeak Korzhenevskaya is the third highest peak in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan. It is one of the five "Snow Leopard Peaks" in the territory of theformer Soviet Union. It is named after Evgenia Korzhenevskaya, the wife of Russiangeographer Nikolai L...
after his wife Evgeniya Korzhenevskaya . In 1928 he produced a unique map of Pamir, which for the first time showed a meridional mountain range that he had discovered and called
Akademiya Nauk RangeAkademiya Nauk Range is a mountain range in the Western Pamirs of Tajikistan. It is stretched in the meridianal direction and considered to be the core of the Pamir mountain system....
in honor of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
Alternative
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s of Korzhenevskiy's name include
Korzhenevskii,
Korzhenevski,
Korzhenevsky, and
Korzhenievsky.