Stalin’s Soviet Union · TURNING POINT ·
Stalin Peak (Ismoil Somoni Peak) (1933)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Stalin Peak”
1933 — The highest mountain in the Soviet Union (7,495 m), in the Pamirs, was named Stalin Peak, and Yevgeny Abalakov of Nikolai Gorbunov’s Tajik–Pamir expedition made the first ascent that September. It became Communism Peak in 1962 and is now Ismoil Somoni Peak.
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- Stalin’s cult of personality (chapter 8 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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