Seldara river springs from the glacier.
Discovery of the glacier was made at the close of the 19th century. In 1871 the first Russian expedition leaded by a well-known naturalist and explorer of Turkestan A.P. Fedchenko came to the Pamir. Interrogating the Zaaliyskiy ridge and discovering its highest peak (the Lenin Peak, 7134m) the expedition made a general scheme of the Pamir mountain range. At the same time an enormous glacier bearing today the name of Fedchenko was discovered by the expedition. In the glacier’s basin are situated the highest peaks of the Pamir, which attract national and foreign alpinists by their height and inaccessibility. In the upper glacier is situated the Revolution peak (6974m). Almost from every point of the glacier it is possible to observe the highest alp of the former USSR and Pamir – the Communism Peak (7495m). Near to it are the Russia Peak (6852m) and the Garmo Peak (6595m).
The highest (4200m) hydro meteorological observatory in the world is located at the glacier.
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