Travel along routes in Kyrgyzstan.

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The Ferghana Range extends from the northwest to the southeast. Its average height in the western part is 3300 - 3500 meters above sea level, to the east it increases, reaching in the area of ​​the junction with the Alai ridge 4500 - 4800 meters above sea level.
In the same direction, the number and size of glaciers are increasing. In total there are 383 glaciers on the Ferghana ridge with an area of ​​195.8 square kilometers. Glaciers are small, 83% of all glaciers are smaller than 0.5 square kilometers, only 3 are larger than 2 square kilometers.
The number is dominated by high-altitude glaciers, but about 75% of the total area of ​​glaciation falls on the glaciers of the valleys. The largest of them are located in the higher southeastern part of the ridge. The size of 9 glaciers exceeds 3 square kilometers.
The largest is Palgov complex valley glacier (5.4 kilometers long, 7.4 kilometers square). Most large glaciers have a northeastern exposure, since snow transport plays a significant role in the transfer of snow by strong westerly and southwesterly winds to the leeward northeastern slopes.
The height of the ends of the glaciers increases from northwest to southeast from 3150 to 4800 meters above sea level. Their surfaces are relatively clean, moraine covered less than 3% of the area. There are many cracks on the valley glaciers, there are icefalls.
The surface slope in firn areas is 7 – 8 °, in tongues, 10 – 15 °. (Glacier catalog. 1968 - 1978).
On the Ferghana Range, the area of ​​glaciation is about 15 kilometers square.
The largest glaciers of the Ferghana Range.
The Palgov Glacier, with a length of 5.4 kilometers, an area of ​​7.4 square kilometers, is located at an altitude of 3430 to 4660 meters above sea level, belongs to the basin of the Arpa and Naryn rivers.
The Kichi-Karakaman Glacier, with a length of 4.3 kilometers, an area of ​​6.6 square kilometers, is located at an altitude of 3590 to 4640 meters above sea level, belongs to the basin of the Arpa and Naryn rivers.
The Kara-Kel glacier, with a length of 4.1 kilometers, an area of ​​6.4 square kilometers, is located at an altitude of 3880 to 4820 meters above sea level, belongs to the basin of the Arpa and Naryn rivers.
Glacier No. 77, with a length of 4.1 kilometers, an area of ​​4.8 square kilometers, located at an altitude of 3800 to 4700 meters above sea level, belongs to the basin of the Arpa and Naryn rivers.
The 4.0 km long Narzan Glacier, an area of ​​2.8 square kilometers, is located at an altitude of 3860 to 4780 meters above sea level, belongs to the basin of the Arpa and Naryn rivers.
Glacier No. 69, with a length of 3.9 kilometers, an area of ​​3.3 square kilometers, located at an altitude of 3420 to 4840 meters above sea level, belongs to the basin of the Arpa and Naryn rivers.
Glacier No. 63, with a length of 3.6 kilometers, an area of ​​2.6 square kilometers, located at an altitude of 3700 to 4600 meters above sea level, belongs to the basin of the Arpa and Naryn rivers.
Glacier No. 146, with a length of 3.4 kilometers, an area of ​​2.5 square kilometers, located at an altitude of 4060 to 4920 meters above sea level, belongs to the basin of the Arpa and Naryn rivers.
The Chong-Karakaman Glacier, with a length of 3.3 kilometers, an area of ​​5.0 square kilometers, is located at an altitude of 3800 to 4700 meters above sea level, belongs to the basin of the Arpa and Naryn rivers.
Glacier No. 58, with a length of 3.0 kilometers, an area of ​​3.3 square kilometers, located at an altitude of 3640 to 4600 meters above sea level, belongs to the basin of the Arpa and Naryn rivers.
The Karakol Glacier, with a length of 2.8 kilometers, an area of ​​4.0 square kilometers, is located at an altitude of 3800 to 4780 meters above sea level, belongs to the basin of the Arpa and Naryn rivers.
The Kuzgun-Iash Glacier, with a length of 2.7 kilometers, an area of ​​3.2 square kilometers, is located at an altitude of 4000 to 4680 meters above sea level, belongs to the basin of the Arpa and Naryn rivers.

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

Photos by
Alexander Petrov.