Is·mo·il So·mo·ni Peak (?s?m?-?l? s??m?-n??) A mountain, 7,495 m (24,590 ft) high, of northeast Tajikistan, in the Pamirs near the Chinese border. The highest elevation in the country and in the former USSR, it was known as Communism Peak from 1962 to 1998.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.