Yevgeniy Abalakov

{{Short description|Soviet mountaineer and sculptor (1907–1948)}}{{Infobox person

| name = Yevgeniy Mikhaylovich Abalakov

| image = EvgeniyAbalakov.jpg

| caption = Yevgeniy Abalakov in 1941

| native_name = Евгений Михайлович Абалаков

| native_name_lang = ru

| birth_date = February 17 [O.S. 4], 1907

| birth_place = Yeniseysk, Yeniseysk Governorate, Russian Empire

| death_date = March 23, 1948 (aged 41)

| death_place = Moscow, Soviet Union

| burial_place = Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow

| occupation = Mountaineer, sculptor

}}

Yevgeniy Mikhaylovich Abalakov ({{langx|ru|Евге́ний Миха́йлович Абала́ков}}; {{OldStyleDate|17 February|1907|4 February}}{{snd}}23 March 1948Great Russian Encyclopedia (2006), Moscow: Bol'shaya Rossiyskaya Enciklopediya Publisher, vol. 1, p. 9) was a Soviet mountaineer and sculptor.

Abalakov was born in Yeniseysk. He is noted for making the first ascent of the highest point of the Soviet Union – the 7,495-meter Stalin Peak (later renamed Communism Peak and eventually Ismoil Somoni Peak, its current name) on 3 September 1933 as a member of the 29th detachment of the Tajik-Pamir Sovnarkom expedition. At the beginning of the German-Soviet War, a theatre of World War II, Abalakov went to the front. Abalakov died on 23 March, 1948 in Moscow, in obscure circumstances, while preparing for the ascent to the Victory Peak.{{Cite web |url=http://www.mk.ru/social/2016/10/20/sledy-borby-i-yada-smert-alpinista-abalakova-spisali-na-specsluzhby.html |title=«Следы борьбы и яда»: смерть альпиниста Абалакова списали на спецслужбы |accessdate=2023-01-24}} His brother, Vitaly Abalakov, also a famous mountaineer, was credited with many climbing equipment innovations and inventions, including Abalakov thread (or V-thread).{{cite book|author=Royal Geographical Society, The Alpine Club|title=Mountaineers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2xMxA954wicC&q=Abalakov+Soviet+mountaineer&pg=PA240|year=2011|publisher=Dorling Kindersley Ltd|isbn=978-1-409-38331-4|page=240}}{{cite book |author=Matt Samet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jpcXCRMyDGwC&q=Abalakov+Cam&pg=PA44 |title=The Climbing Dictionary: Mountaineering Slang, Terms, Neologisms & Lingo: An Illustrated Reference |publisher=The Mountaineers Books |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-594-85503-0 |page=44}}{{Cite web |title=Risk Online: Расстрельное время (ретро -обзор) |url=http://old.risk.ru/rus/mount/museum/pustovalov/index.html |access-date=2024-12-28 |website=old.risk.ru}}

Abalakov was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.