SOVIET UNION

SOVIET UNION / СОЮЗ СОВЕТСКИХ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКИХ РЕСПУБЛИК.

International Mountaineers' Camps of USSR.
Korzhenevskoi Peak, Pamir (now in Tajikistan). 
Second stamp in a set of 5, issued on 05.09.1986.
Face value: 5 Soviet kopek.
Design: I. Kozlov.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 3,970,000 copies.
Size: 58 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 5636.
- Scott No. 5482.
- StampWorld No. 5433.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 5684.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 5336.
- Zagorski No. 5688.

Korzhenevskoi Peak (tadjik: Қуллаи Корженевскӣ; russian: Пик Корженевской) is the third highest peak in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan. Su altura es de 7,105 m (23,310 ft). It is named after Evgenia Korzhenevskaya, the wife of Russian geographer Nikolai L. Korzhenevskiy, who discovered the peak in August 1910. It was first climbed in 1953 by a party led by A. Ugarov.

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Thanks to Kazimierz R. Leszczyński for his contribution (http://leszkarozdub.blogspot.com).