Video: The largest underwater gypsum cave in the world: Orda, Russia
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Thousands of people are attracted every year by the dangerous beauty of the caves - cavers take the risk to see stone underground palaces with turrets and labyrinths. No less dangerous object of admiration was chosen by divers - lovers of water depths, where every mistake can also cost life, but it is so beautiful … But there is a place in the world where caves and water merge into one beautiful ensemble - a paradise for divers and cavers. It is in Of Russia, near the village of Orda in the Urals: this the largest flooded gypsum cave in the world.
The most diverse and beautiful caves in the world one thing in common: they are all the result of the tricks of mother water, which leaves "cheese holes" in the mountains. Passages are especially easy to gnaw through in a soft plaster. The longest gypsum cave in the world is located in Ukraine (Optimistic, more than 230 kilometers), and the most beautiful one is probably still in Russia. Ordinskaya cave is "only" 4 600 meters long, but you can dive in it!
Water continues its destructive and creative work in it now: mineral "brushes" are formed on the walls, transparent crystals of gypsum grow, and in cold winter ice stalactites and stalagmites grow in the halls of the mountain palace. Amazing animals live in the eternally dark water of the cave - Khlebnikov's crangonixes … These little blind crustaceans live only in three caves in Perm - and nowhere else. Scientists still do not understand what they eat here, in the dark and cold. Unfortunately, tourists offend fragile underground crustaceans, blinding them and poisoning them with "lucky coins".
But in Orda cave there are no tourists. Only experienced speleologists get there: the cave was discovered only in 1993 by the Perm explorer Andrey Samovolnikov. Since then, more than one expedition went to it: brave speleologists broke the ice, looked for new moves, made maps. The wonderful photos that you see in this article are the work of hands and the camera Victor Lyagushkin … He is a professional photographer and designer passionate about diving and the beauty of Russian waters. Viktor Lyagushkin even published a whole album with views Orda cave: the Russian underground-underwater miracle is worthy of it.
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