The Russian prime minister will now also stand tall in Kyrgyzstan – at almost 4,500 meters – after his counterpart in the Central Asian republic ordered that a peak in the Tian-Shan Mountains be named after Vladimir Putin.
Kyrgyz Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev has issued orders to name a 4,500-meter mountain "Vladimir Putin Peak," Russian news agency ITAR-TASS reported on Tuesday. The mountain peak, in the basin of the Ak-Suu River in the Chui district, was previously unnamed.
Prime Minister Atambayev's decree is yet to be ratified by the Kyrgyz Parliament. Earlier, Kyrgyzstan had renamed one of the peaks near the picturesque Issyk-Kul Lake in the Tian-Shan Mountains after post-Soviet Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin.
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