Katyn-Tau
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Katyn-Tau ( ) is a summit in the central part of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range (Bezengi Wall). It lies on the border of Svaneti (Mestia Municipality, Georgia) and Kabardino-Balkaria (Russia). The elevation of the mountain is 4979 m (16,335 ft) above sea level. The mountain is made up of paleozoic granites. The slopes of summit are covered nival landscape.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Katyn-Tau
- Mountain.photo
- Summit shot (west) from Semenovskogo.jpg
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 4979
- Mountain.map
- Georgia (country)
- Mountain.location
- Georgia / Russia
- Mountain.parent
- Main Caucasian RangeCaucasus Mountains
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti
- Elevation
- 4979
- Image
- Summit shot (west) from Semenovskogo.jpg
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- mountain range
- Main Caucasus Range
- Commons category
- Katyn-Tau
- topographic prominence
- 159
- topographic isolation
- 1.65
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Katyn-Tau ( ) is a summit in the central part of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range (Bezengi Wall). It lies on the border of Svaneti (Mestia Municipality, Georgia) and Kabardino-Balkaria (Russia). The elevation of the mountain is 4979 m (16,335 ft) above sea level. The mountain is made up of paleozoic granites. The slopes of summit are covered nival landscape.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Katyn-Tau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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