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Peak Communism

 ( Pik Kommunizma, Ismoil Somoni Peak, Pik Imeni Ismail Samani ) 

At 7495 metres it is the highest mountain in Tajikistan

and in the former Soviet Union. 

When the existence of a peak in the Soviet Pamir Mountains

higher than Independence Peak

was first established the new peak,

was named Stalin Peak after Joseph Stalin.

The name was changed to Communism Peak ( Pik Kommunizma )

and then to Ismoil Somoni Peak ( Pik Imeni Ismal Samani )

 after Ismoil Somoni, the ancestor of the Samanid dynasty.

It is one of the five Snow Leopard Peaks.

Peak Communism

 ( Pik Kommunizma, Ismoil Somoni Peak, Pik Imeni Ismail Samani )