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Grigoriev glacier North Tien-Shan.
Adventure tours on glaciers Zailiskiy Ala-Tau.
«Mountains know: to them the trouble has come.
The Smoke has tightened passes.
You did not distinguish still then
From breaks mountain collapses»
Vladimir Vysotskiy. "For Michael Hergiani".
Travel Guide North Tien-Shan Kazakhstan.
Grigoriev Glacier is the largest in river basin Issyk.
The field has Grigoriev glacier at length up to 5 kilometers at width both up to 2 kilometers and up to 3 kilometers snow field.
The glacier concerns to type hollow. The configuration he has significant similarity to Dmitriev glacier.
The total area of a glacier with the fallen asleep extremity makes approximately more than 8 kilometers square.
Authorship:
«Nature Zailiskiy Ala-Tau », M.Z.Zhandaev, Kazakhstan, Alma-Ata, 1978. The catalogue of glaciers of the USSR. - Leningrad, 1967, т. 13, 2 party. Glaciers Егнлыг (Northern Tien-Shan): Hydro-meteorological services, 1984. Congelation Tien-Shan. Under N.B.Djurgerov.-, 1995. Congelation Zailiskiy Ala-Tau. - М.: The Science, 1969. Palgov N. Big Almaty unit of a congelation in ridge Zailiskiy Ala-Tau. The brief encyclopedia Kazakh SSR, volume 2, the Nature, Alma-Ata, 1990.
Alexander Petrov and Sergei Mikhalkov
photos.