Dark Star is the name of a cave system located in the Boysuntov Range in

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, some from the capital

Tashkent Tashkent (), also known as Toshkent, is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uzbekistan, largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of more than 3 million people as of April 1, 2024. I ...

, near the village of

Boysun Boysun (, ) is a city in Surxondaryo Region, Uzbekistan and capital of Boysun District. The population was 16,732 as of the 1989 census, and 27,600 in 2016. History Boysun is one of the oldest inhabited places in the Surxondaryo Region of Uzbekis ...

. It has seven entrances. The first cave entrances were discovered by Russians in 1984, but it was not until 1990 when British cavers began to explore it. It is named after the 1974 film of the same name. As of March 2017, it has been explored by eight different expeditions, with over of passageways discovered, with an estimated depth of over . Nearby is another cave system, Festivalnaya; it is suspected the two are connected. It is believed to be the longest cave in Uzbekistan.

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