Katyn-Tau ( ) is a summit in the central part of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range (Bezengi Wall). It lies on the border of Svaneti (Mestia Municipality, Georgia) and Kabardino-Balkaria (Russia). The elevation of the mountain is 4979 m (16,335 ft) above sea level.Katyn-Tau — peakbagger.com The mountain is made up of paleozoic granites. The slopes of summit are covered nival landscape.M. Utmelidze, Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, V, p. 318, Tbilisi, Georgia, 1980.
The peak was first ascended in 1888 by a team led by Henry William Holder who summited August 24 via the famously difficult Bezingi Face.
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