Yevgeniy Mikhaylovich Abalakov (1907 to 1948) was a Soviet mountaineer and sculptor, born in Yeniseysk. He is noted for making the first ascent of the highest point of the Soviet Union, the 7,495 metre Stalin Peak, later renamed Communism Peak and eventually Ismoil Somoni Peak, on 3 September 1933 as a member of the 29th detachment of the Tajik-Pamir Sovnarkom expedition. At the beginning of the German-Soviet War he went to the front, and he died on 23 March 1948 in Moscow in obscure circumstances.
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