Description of the attraction
The famous Vorontsov Caves stretch for 11 km. This is one of the largest systems in the Caucasus with a vertical drop of 240 meters. It consists of three parts - Kabania, Vorontsovskaya and Labyrinth, connected by narrow passages filled with water. Many of the caves were known to primitive people who founded their sites here. Traces of the stay of our distant ancestors were found in the Akhshtyrskaya cave, a place of pilgrimage for lovers of antiquities.
There is a lot of water in the caves, including mineral springs, there are underground rivers and lakes. The halls "Stalactite", "Pantheon", "Ochazhny", "Silence", "Oval", "Bear", "Prometheus" amaze with their size and natural decorative decoration. In the halls "Ochazhny" and "Stalactite", up to 100 meters long, there is a vertical fate with waterfalls and water pits, intricate heaps of blocks, carbonate drips. In the Pantheon hall, the domed ceiling is decorated with stalactite garlands. The stalactite "Rocket" in the Labyrinth Cave is over 6 meters long.
In the lower tier there is the "Cave Bear" grotto - now bats live here, and cave bears once lived here. Their remains were found by archaeologists. Among the finds in the Vorontsovskaya cave were archaeological sites of the late Paleolithic: stone and bone tools, bones of eaten animals (bison, wild horses, wild boars, deer, bears), the remains of dishes.
In total, more than 400 vertical, horizontal, cascading, labyrinth caves are known on the territory of Sochi. They are of great historical and archaeological value and are easily accessible to sightseers.
