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Barskaun

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Barskaun

 

(also Barskon), a pass through the Terskei-Alatau Range in the Tien-Shan in the Kirghiz SSR. Barskaun is situated at an elevation of 3,754 m. A motor road goes through Barskaun from the basin of Lake Issyk-Kul’ into Inner Tien-Shan.

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