Shahdag ( Azeri. Şahdağ , 'Shah (king), dag (mountain) - literally. Tsar Mountain ) - a mountain peak in the eastern part of the Greater Caucasus , in the system of the Lateral Range , on the territory of Azerbaijan .
| Shahdag | |
|---|---|
| azerb. Şahdağ | |
 Mountain view | |
| Highest point | |
| Absolute height | 4243 m |
| Relative height | |
| First climb | Andrey Pastukhov , 1892 |
| Location | |
| A country |
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| Mountain system | Greater Caucasus |
| Ridge or array | Side ridge |
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Etymology
The toponym Shahdag is of Turkic - Persian origin, from Pers. "Shah" and Turk. Doug.
Description
Brown Shahdag without a snow-capped peak looks like a huge castle , admirable for its nature. It is composed mainly of limestones and dolomites and has a height of 4243 m. The landscape is represented by glaciers, waterfalls and alpine meadows. In the western part of the Shahdag massif, among the rocks at an altitude of about 3700-3800 m, there are two lakes, the path to which lies through the western "gate" of Shahdag. This is a narrow gorge along which one of the tributaries of the Shahnabad river flows. On this side, the Shahdag very much, eroding under the influence of wind and precipitation, collapses. There are glaciers at altitudes above 3700 m. The area of glaciers has been rapidly declining in the last decade. At the moment, its area is 1.1 km². The average temperatures of January and July and the average annual temperature at different heights of Shahdag
- 1500m - −7.0 and +17.5 +5.1
- 2500m - −13.5 and +12 −0.8
- 3500m - −19.5 and +5.3 −7.0
- 4243m - −24.7 and −0.2 −12.5
Permafrost begins at an altitude of 2500-2600 m.
Climbing History
In the winter season, low air temperatures are observed here, often dropping below minus 20 degrees Celsius, which leads to the freezing of hundred-meter waterfalls flowing down the slopes of the mountain and turning them into gigantic ice blocks, on which they climb. The first to climb the mountain was Andrei Pastukhov in 1892 from the Shahdag gorge. Every year, from the summer of 1935 to 1968, the consolidated company of cadets of the Baku Infantry School later ascended the summit of Shah-Dag [1] . In 1966 - O. Drozdovsky, and in 1993 - D.P. Shiyanov climbed the fault of the north-eastern wall.
Every year, local climbers climb the summit.
Interesting Facts
- In 2012, near the Shahdag, the Shahdag winter-summer tourist complex was opened.
Topographic maps
- Map sheet K-39-97 Hynalyk . Scale: 1: 100,000. 1978 edition
Notes
Links
- Shahdag (mountain) - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia
- Shah-Dag // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- The guide book “Shahdag from the North and from the South” was published in 2008 by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources together with the Azerbaijan Federation of Air and Extreme Sports (Unavailable link) . Archived on June 16, 2009.