Kyzylart Pass

Location in Kyrgyzstan, on the border with Tajikistan

Kyzylart Pass (Russian: Кызыл-Арт; Kyrgyz: Кызыл-Арт ашуусу) is a mountain pass and border crossing in the Trans-Alay Range on the border of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The highest point is 4,280 m (14,042 ft).^[1] The border checkpoint on the Kyrgyz side is Bor-Döbö.^[2] The area is typically rugged and dry. It is crossed by the Pamir Highway which leads south from Sary-Tash in the Alay Valley up onto the Pamir plateau toward Karakol Lake and Murghab, Tajikistan. In the late nineteenth century the Russians explored and eventually occupied the Pamir plateau.

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  Ascent to the pass
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  Yaki on the pass
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  Kilometers on the pass
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  Pamir Highway near the Kyzyl Art Pass

• Laurence Mitchell, Kyrgyzstan, Bradt travel guides, 2008
• Robert Middleton and Huw Thomas, Tajikistan and the High Pamirs, Odyssey Books, 2008