Sarma
Sarma Cave, located in the Gagra District of Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia, is the third-deepest recorded cave in the world. Its depth was measured in 2012 by a team led by Pavel Rudko.- Type: Cave
- Description: karst cave in the Georgia
- Also known as: “Sarma cave” and “Sarma Cave”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Veryovkina Cave.
Veryovkina Cave
Cave
Photo: Petr Lyubimov, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Veryovkina Cave is a cave in Abkhazia, Georgia. As of 2025, at 2,209 meters deep, it is the second deepest-known cave on Earth after Krubera Cave. Veryovkina is in the Arabika Massif, in the Gagra mountain range of the Western Caucasus, on the pass between the Krepost and Zont mountains, close to the slopes of Mount Krepost. Veryovkina Cave is situated 1 km west of Sarma.
Sarma
Latitude
43.394° or 43° 23′ 38″ northLongitude
40.37252° or 40° 22′ 21″ eastElevation
2,150 metres (7,054 feet)Open location code
8HM299VF+H2OpenStreetMap ID
node 5041811415OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cave_entranceWikidata ID
Q17085207
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Sarma” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كهف سارما”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كهف سارما”
- Georgian: “სარმის მღვიმე”
- Persian: “غار سارما”
- Russian: “Сарма (пещера)”
- Russian: “Сарма”
- Ukrainian: “Сарма (печера)”
- Ukrainian: “Сарма”
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