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Lithuanian climbers name Tian Shan peaks after Basanavicius, Vidugiris
7 Lithuanian climbers who conquered nameless peaks in the Tian Shan
mountain range in Kyrgyzstan in August have named the peaks after Jonas Basanavicius and Algimantas Vidugiris, hoping to get
official recognition of the new names as geographical names, informs LETA/BNS.
"The Lithuanian climbers and our state institutions are working
hand-in-hand, we have to wait and hope that the names of the Lithuanian peaks
will be stipulated geographically," Irena
Andrukaitiene, signatory of the 1990 Independence Act, a member of the
Lithuanian Climbing Association and participant of the international expedition
Karakol – 2017, told a news conference at the parliament on Friday.
The expedition involved a total of over 70 people, including seven who
reached the two nameless peaks later named after the Lithuanian figures.
The name of Basanavicius, chairman of the Council of Lithuania that
declared independence in 1918, was given to a 4,594 meter peak to celebrate a
century of Lithuania's statehood, while the name of Vidugiris, a
Lithuanian-born filmmaker, was given to a 4,780 meter peak due to the person's
ties with both Lithuania and Kyrgyzstan.
A few other peaks in Tian Shan already have Lithuanian names, including
Zalgiris, Vilnius University, Mazvydas, Nemunas and Millennium of Lithuania.