East Pshart ( Tajik. Psharti Sharқӣ ) is a drying river (dry riverbed) in the Murgab district of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan . It is the right tributary of the Akbaital River , the right tributary of the Murghab . It passes through a wide valley in the southeastern Pamir between the Pshart ridge (in the south) and Muzkol (in the north). Near the mouth, it crosses the Pamir Highway and flows into Akbaital, northeast of the village of Murgab .
| East Pshart | |
|---|---|
| Taj. Psharti Sharқӣ | |
| Characteristic | |
| Watercourse | |
| Source | |
| • Coordinates | |
| Mouth | Akbaital |
| • Coordinates | |
| Location | |
| Water system | Akbaital → Bartang → Panj → Amu Darya → Great Aral Sea |
| A country |
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| Region | Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast |
| Area | Murghab district |
 - source  - mouth | |
The food of the glacial - snow river. The channel is filled only in the hottest summer days, when glaciers on the slopes of Muzkol melt strongly.
The valley is composed of Cretaceous - Paleogene deposits [1] . The valley passes the path through the pass Ak-Tosh (Ak-Tash) at an altitude of 4235 meters, which connects the valleys of the rivers West and East Pshart. Fields are located in the lower part of the East Pshart Valley along the floodplain terrace. Barley is sown here. In the upper part of the valley, where summer pastures are located along the lateral cracks, there are farms [2] .
Right tributaries: Kara-Dzhilga, Gumbezkol Northern, Keng-Dzhilga.
Left tributaries: Molo-Kara-Dzhilga, Ak-Dzhilga, Sali Mulla.
Notes
- ↑ Ruzhentsev, Sergey Vasilievich . Tectonic development of the Eastern Pamirs and the role of horizontal movements in the formation of its alpine structure . - M .: Nauka, 1968 .-- S. 100. - 203 p. - (Proceedings of the GIN / AN SSSR. Geol. Institute; Vol. 192).
- ↑ Stanyukovich, Kirill Vladimirovich . A path of argali. - M .: Geografgiz, 1959. - 182 p.