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Chimgan
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Museum · Bostanliq District
Vladimir Ratsek House-Museum of Mountaineering
A small museum opened in 2011 in Tavaksay near Chirchiq, displaying the belongings and photographs of Vladimir Ratsek, a founder of Uzbek mountaineering.
The museum and its hero
The museum was opened on 12 April 2011 in the village of Tavaksay near Chirchiq by enthusiasts who had known Ratsek personally. It displays his personal belongings and photographs.
Vladimir Iosifovich Ratsek (1918–1980) was a Soviet mountaineer, an Honoured Master of Sport of the USSR (1954) who also held a candidate’s degree in geography. During the war, with a team of military surveyors, he refined the height and position of Pobeda Peak, earning the Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky Gold Medal in 1947. In 1950 he led the first ascent of Lenin Peak by Uzbek climbers, which won the USSR mountaineering championship.
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