SOVIET UNION

SOVIET UNION / СОЮЗ СОВЕТСКИХ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКИХ РЕСПУБЛИК.

Soviet Mountain Climbing.
Mount Khan Tengri (now in the Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and China border).
First stamp in a set of 3, issued on 28.12.1964.
Face value: 4 Soviet kopeks.
Design: N. Kruglov and E. Aniskin. 
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 4,000,000 copies.
Size: 38 x 40 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 3002.
- Scott No. 2982.
- StampWorld No. 2793.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 3077.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 2899.
- Zagorski No. 3055.

Khan Tengri (Kyrgyz: Хан-Теңири; Kazakh: Хан Тәңірі; simplified Chinese: 汗腾格里峰; Uighur: خانتەڭرى) is a mountain of the Tian Shan mountain range. It is on the China—Kyrgyzstan—Kazakhstan tripoint, east of lake Issyk Kul. Its geologic elevation is 6,995 m (22,949 ft), but its glacial icecap rises to 7,010 m (22,999 ft). It is a massive marble pyramid, covered in snow and ice. Peter Semenov was the first European to see the Tian Shan and its peak in 1857. The first ascent of the peak was made in 1931 by Mikhail Pogrebetsky, Boris Tyurin and Franz Sauberer. In the worldview of the ancient peoples of Turkic-Mongolian origin, Tengri is the supreme deity, the organizer of the world, along with the goddess Umai.