Archaeological Cave - a cave in the Shirinsky district of Khakassia on the right side of the valley of the Malaya Syya River , 1.5 km from the village of Malaya Syya, a geological monument of nature of republican significance (900 meters from the village of Malaya Syya , 50 km from the railway station Shira station). Karst cave 270 m long and 37 m deep, I category of complexity. An ancient human site was discovered in the cave. The habitat of bats. It has environmental, scientific, educational, cultural, historical, recreational significance.
| Archaeological | |
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| Specifications | |
| Depth | 37 m |
| Length | 270 m |
| Opening year | OK. 1960 |
| Type of | karst |
| Number of inputs | one |
| Visit | |
| Difficulty category | one |
| Location | |
| A country |
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| Region | Khakassia |
Content
Location
The cave is located under a rock near the village of Malaya Syya , about half a kilometer further than the last gardens. Coordinates 54 ° 24′25.7 ″ s. W .; 89 ° 24′49.5 ″ in. d.
Description
The entrance begins with a classic ramp at the base of the cliff. A coil with a length of about 5 meters goes into an inclined grotto. In the far right side there are circular passages. Keeping to the left you can get into the main grotto of the cave. The bottom with traces of watercourses, gravitational deposits. On the left there are small passages confined to tectonic cracks. The grotto ends with an ascending blockage. The cave has a length of 270 meters. Cadastral number B1a-5
Research
It was discovered in the 1960s by the caver Viktor Stotsenko and a group of pioneer schoolchildren as a result of the analysis of the input blockage.
In the cave, a large population of bats is about 5000 individuals. From the mid-1980s to the present, Elena Rudenko (Boltukhina) in Malaya Syya has been studying them.
See also
- Pandora's Box (cave)
Literature
- Gos. report “On the state of the environment. the natural environment of the Republic of Khakassia in 1998 ”, the same, 1999, 2000, 2001
- Encyclopedia of the Republic of Khakassia: [in 2 volumes] / Government Rep. Khakassia [scientific ed. Advice: V. A. Kuzmin (previous) and others.]. - Krasnoyarsk: Polikor, 2008. T. 2: [O - I]. 320 s : ill. S. 44. ISBN 978-5-91502-008-4