Vyalova Cave (пещера Вялова) is a

cave Caves or caverns are natural voids under the Earth's Planetary surface, surface. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground. Exogene caves are smaller openings that extend a relatively short distance undergrou ...

in a lower plateau of the Chatyrdag mountain,

Crimea Crimea ( ) is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. The Isthmus of Perekop connects the peninsula to Kherson Oblast in mainland Ukrain ...

. It also has an 'old' name: Togerik-Alan-Hosar (Тогерик-Алан-Хосар). The cave has a vertical entrance of depth, which gradually, at a depth about , transforms into a steep, almost vertical, shaft. The total depth of the cave is . It belongs to the Vyalova Cave system. The cave is named after Russian

speleologist Speleology () is the scientific study of caves and other karst features, as well as their composition, structure, physical properties, history, ecology, and the processes by which they form (speleogenesis) and change over time (speleomorpholog ...

Vyalov.

Vyalova Cave system

Vyalova Caves system is a system of three

s that are located on a lower plateau of the Chatyrdag mountain,

. The system consists of three caves (has three entrances): Uchunzhu Cave, Vyalova Cave and Obval'naya Cave (or

Landslip Cave Landslides, also known as landslips, rockslips or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows. Landslides ...

, Crimea).

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A photo of the cave's mouth
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