Komito, Mountain summit on Georgia-Russia border

Komito is a 4,261-metre mountain on the border of Georgia and Russia, in Akhmeta Municipality, Kakheti, and Chechnya's Sharoy District. It lies on the Pirikita Range and is built of Liassic clay shales. Its upper part is rocky, with glaciers covering 2–2.5 km² on the north slope and several snow-ice patches on the south slope; the lower slopes are covered with alpine and subalpine meadows.

Komito lies on the Georgian-Chechen section of the Russia-Georgia border, where Soviet and Russian geographer A. A. Golovlyov noted that nearly all high summits of the Side Range on the Chechen stretch bear Georgian names, such as Makismagali, Tebulos-Mta and Donos-Mta. Konstantin Nikolayevich Rossikov showed that Chechen equivalents exist for these names, and Komito's own Chechen name is Dattakh-Korta. Between 1888 and 1969 the mountain's glacier lost 2.6 km² in area and shrank by 920 m in length.

The mountain carries two names: the Georgian Komito and the Chechen Dattakh-Korta. Geographer A. A. Golovlyov notes that most high peaks on the Chechen section of the Russia-Georgia border appear on modern maps under Georgian names, while K. N. Rossikov showed that Chechen equivalents exist for them.

Komito lies on the Georgian-Chechen stretch of the Russia-Georgia border, in Akhmeta municipality on the Georgian side and Sharoy district on the Chechen side. The nearest Georgian villages are Dartlo and Bochorna to the south; on the Russian side lie Sandukho, Itum-Kali and Sharoy. The northern slope carries glaciers of 2–2.5 km², while the lower slopes are alpine and subalpine meadows.

The mountain is built of Liassic clay shales, and its upper part is rocky. On the northern slope lie glaciers covering 2–2.5 km², while the southern slope keeps only a few patches of snow and ice. Between 1888 and 1969 the glacier shrank by 2.6 km² in area and 920 m in length.