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unusual facts about Tien Shan



Arctia rueckbeili

It is found in Tien Shan, Alai and Turkestan mountains in Central Asia within Kyrghyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Chinese province of Xinjiang at altitudes 1300-3500 m a.s.l. The moth flies June to July.

Oropolitics

Another example is the Chinese publication Raising the Five Star Flag on Mount Tomur, an account of the successful Chinese expedition of 1977 to the Tien Shan peak better known by its Russian name as Pik Pobedy (nowadays renamed yet again by Kyrgyzstan as Jengish Chokusu).


see also

E. robustus

Eremurus robustus, a plant species native to the Tien Shan and Pamir Mountains in central Asia

Edward Delmar Morgan

In 1879, he translated From Kulja across the Tien Shan (TianShan) to Lobnor by Przevalsky, now edited by Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth.

Spermophilus ralli

A close relative of Spermophilus relictus, it is sometimes considered the same species, and shares the common name Tien Shan ground squirrel.

Spermophilus relictus

It is sometimes called the relict ground squirrel or the Tien Shan ground squirrel, a name also used for Spermophilus ralli, which is sometimes considered the same species.