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Skogach Glacier.

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“Let me in the wanderings of the coming
Forever shine like a lighthouse
Passes, rocks, steeps,
Mountains are my youth! ”

Yuri Vizbor. September 1954 Again in Turgrad.

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The Skogach Glacier is located in the Sangvor region of Tajikistan. The length of the glacier 12 The Skogach Glacier is located in the Sangvor region of Tajikistan. The length of the glacier is 12 kilometers, the area of ​​the Skogach glacier is 12.6 square kilometers.
The glacier is located in the Obihingou River Basin on the northern slope of the Mazarsky Range, which is a large spur of the Darvaz Range. The Skogach River flowing out of the glacier flows into the Bochud River. Skogach is a valley glacier, the volume of ice is 1.2 kilometers cubic.
The glacier is located at an altitude of 3050 meters above sea level. Moraine covered 1.1 kilometers square surface of the glacier. The firn area of ​​this typical valley glacier is located in vast valleys, and the long part of the glacier descends through a narrow deep valley to an altitude of 3050 meters above sea level.
At an altitude of 4000 - 4200 meters above sea level is an impenetrable icefall with a length of about 2 kilometers. The lower part of the glacier is covered with moraine. The speed of ice movement is about 42 centimeters per day, in the middle part of the glacier 10 centimeters per day and near the end of the glacier.
During the ablation period, the glacier melts about 3 meters of ice (Sannikov, Yablokov. 1974). Since 1969, for many years, glaciological observations by Glavtadzhikgidromet specialists have been carried out on the glacier.
The total retreat of the Skogach Glacier from 1969 to 1976 was 76 meters, an average of 11 meters per year. From 1975 to 1991, he retreated another 67 meters at an average speed of 4.2 meters per year. However, only in 1991 he retreated immediately to 10 meters.
During the period from 1969 to 1986, the glacier lost 98.8 million meters of cubic ice, which is 8.2% of its total mass, on average 0.5% of the mass per year.

Authority:
"Glaciers." L.D. Dolgushin, G.B. Osipova. Series "Nature of the world." Moscow, the publishing house "Thought". 1989.

Photos by
Alexander Petrov.