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The deepest cave in the world

Summer and autumn were successful for researchers of the Krubera-Voronya cave, located in the region of Mount Arabica (Abkhazia). In January 2001, this cavity became the deepest in the world (1710 m). It takes about 5 days to visit the deepest known point of this cave, even light and on already hung ropes, and a research expedition usually lasts at least a month. After the long-term efforts of many expeditions, the permanent leader of which was Yuri Kasyan, the cavers of the Ukrainian Speleological Association (UCA) were the first in the world to go down in a natural cave deeper than 2 km. The goal of the UkrSA Call of the Abyss project has been achieved. However, the exploration of the cave did not stop there. In the summer of 2005, a team of cavers from England, Australia, the USA, Greece, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Italy, Ukraine, Russia and Abkhazia managed to reach a depth of 2140 m when the team explored a branch of the cave, previously discovered by Ukra
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Hike along the path of the troops of Ivan the Terrible

There is an opinion that something overseas is considered a trip. However, the “far-away kingdom” can sometimes be very close. Our village of Surskoy is spread over a huge white-headed outlier. This chalk mountain was formed long ago, during the last glaciation. In every way this remnant was called: both the White Mountain and Nikolskaya. The places are beautiful, once impassable. A thousand years ago the border of the Bulgarian kingdom ran along the forest edge, violating the measured life of the Finno-Ugric and Slavic tribes. The Bulgars liked the Volga Upland, its dark dense forests that filled the floodplains of the rivers, and the wide steppes, covered with feather grass and fescue. Bulgars did not live apart, they established trade with their neighbors, sent caravans to distant states. They say that sometimes their caravans passed by St. Nicholas Mountain and merchants left gifts at its top, venerating this mountain sacred. Bulgars adopted the religion of the Baghdad Caliphat
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Fan mountains

Fan mountains This year we wanted to check the entrances to the Fans through Dushanbe. It turned out that one-way Tajik airline tickets from Moscow for our two Lithuanian participants cost $ 140 more than for CIS residents. Therefore, I had to go the old route Samarkand - Pejikent - Varzob. Late in the evening, we arrived at the former Varzob climbing camp. Now there are only houses and a supply house, but you can spend the night, and it’s very cheap. There is no light for a long time. The manager said that they plan to make a recreation center here. Somehow this year everything turned out both good and bad at the same time: almost everyone had perfect weather (especially on the first part of the route) and constant health problems (mainly gastrointestinal). We go, suffering from incomprehensible diseases and gradually losing (sending down) people. From the very beginning, Volodya Privalov and I suffered from the stomach more than others. Volodya was even forced to leave the route.
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Mountain Altai

This mountain system is partially located in Russia, as well as Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China. The highest point of Altai - Mount Belukha (4506 m) - is also the highest point of Siberia. The relative inaccessibility, the absence of large industrial centers, weak (point) tourist activity, the general remoteness and the enormous scale of the territory allowed Altai to preserve what modern citizens call wildlife. These are magical mountains, completely unlike any other. The snow-white pearl among the boundless sea of ​​the taiga - the beautiful Belukha - is not just a mountain, an object for climbing. This is the living heart of Altai, trembling, beating, powerful energy node. The ascent to Belukha becomes for man a stage of personal spiritual evolution, radically changing his attitude to the world, to people, to himself. Nicholas Roerich spoke a lot about the mysticism of Belukha and its spiritual significance. The followers of his teachings still organize pilgrimages to the foot
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Expedition to Elbrus

According to the expedition, the religious center of the pro-Slavic state of Ruskolan was found, mentioned in many written historical testimonies and oral traditions. Ruskolan in the first centuries of our era united Slavs, Alans and some other peoples living in the North Caucasus. The 2001 expedition allegedly discovered the location of the temple of the Sun and the ancient city of Kiyar (Kuara), which at that time played the role of the capital for the Slavs (later Kiev became it). The Temple of the Sun, according to the expedition, was, like Stonehenge, a near-horizon astronomical observatory and served the calendar that has survived to this day. It was composed by the last prince Ruskolani Bus Beloyar, who is called Baksan in the legends in the Caucasus about the heroes. (After his death in 368 CE, in the war with the Goths, the sacred river Altud - Alatyrku, flowing from Alatyrgory, Elbrus - began to be called in honor of Prince Baksan.) The next expedition to Elbrus was deci
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