Uzbel

English

Map including Uzbel Shankou / Wu-tzu-pieh-li Shan-k'ou (DMA, 1988)

Etymology

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Proper noun

Uzbel

1. A mountain pass on the border between Akto, Kizilsu prefecture, Xinjiang, China and Murghob district, Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan.
   • 1877 February 1, Robert Michell, “THE RUSSIAN EXPEDITION TO THE ALAI AND PAMIR IN 1876”, in The Geographical Magazine‎^[1], volume 4, →OCLC, page 49:

     After having travelled along the Ala-Baital defile, and followed the course of the Uzbel-Su, the party reached the Uzbel Pass, which separates the basin of the Kara-Kul from that of the Sary-Kol and Tarun-Gol.[...]The late M. Fedchenko disputed the existence of a meridional range on the east side of the Pamir, saying that Hayward had simply taken the abrupt side of the Pamir for a transverse mountain-range. Captain Kostenko, on the other hand, was impressed with its grandeur. It lies about 53 miles from the Uzbel Pass, and beyond it lies Kashghar, 40 miles further.[...]Through lack of provisions, Captain Kostenko was unable to push on to the Sary-Kol and compelled to return by the Uzbel Pass and the little Chon-Su defile. On emerging from thence, one comes upon a point where three roads converge—one to Badakhshan, one to Kokand (over the Kizyl-Yart), and the other to Kash- ghar (over the Uzbel Pass). The main force of the Alai column was rejoined at Archa-bulak, at the southern base of the Alai range. The whole distance marched by Captain Kostenko’s force, from the mouth of the Kizyl-Yart defile to the Uzbel Pass, was 90 miles.

   • 1896, George N. Curzon, The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus‎^[2], →OCLC, →OL, page 51:

     In 1876 Kostenko, from the Uzbel Pass, observed a great peak in this direction, the name of which was given to him as Mustagh Ata, i.e. Father of Ice Mountains.

   • 1982 November 18 [1982 July 25], Liu Cunkuan [0491 1317 1401], “The Historical Background of the Pamir Dispute Between China and the USSR”, in China Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs‎^[3], number 363, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

     If we open up the Atlas of the People's Republic of China we will find that the region of the Pamir, the western extremity of Xinjiang, from the Wuzibieli [Uzbel] Pass¹ to the south down to the Kekelaqukaole Peak (which the Soviet Russians call "Pavel Shveikovsky Peak") is designated as a not limited area. However, on the present-day Soviet Russian maps that area is shown as delimited, i.e., provided with a formal state boundary.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Uzbel.

Synonyms

• Kyzyl-Dzhiik

Translations

mountain pass on the China-Tajikistan border

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烏孜別里／乌孜别里 (Wūzībiélǐ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Zebul