Veryovkina Cave
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.Photo: Petr Lyubimov, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Cave
- Description: natural cave in Georgia
- Also known as: “Verëvkina Cave”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sarma.
Sarma
Cave
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. Sarma is situated 1 km east of Veryovkina Cave.
Veryovkina Cave
Latitude
43.39753° or 43° 23′ 51″ northLongitude
40.35972° or 40° 21′ 35″ eastElevation
2,309 metres (7,575 feet)Open location code
8HM299X5+2VOpenStreetMap ID
node 5284621536OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cave_entranceWikidata ID
Q46605456
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Veryovkina Cave” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كهف فيروفكينا”
- Armenian: “Ալեքսանդր Վերյովկինի քարանձավ”
- Armenian: “Վերյովկինի քարանձավ”
- Azerbaijani: “Veryovkin mağarası”
- Belarusian: “Пячора Вяроўкіна”
- Bulgarian: “Верьовкин”
- Catalan: “Cova Verióvkina”
- Chinese: “韦廖夫金洞穴”
- Czech: “Verjovkinova jeskyně”
- French: “gouffre Veryovkina”
- French: “Gouffre Veryovkina”
- Georgian: “ვერიოვკინის მღვიმე”
- German: “Werjowkina”
- Greek: “Σπήλαιο Βεριόβκιν”
- Indonesian: “Gua Veryovkina”
- Japanese: “ベロブキナ洞窟”
- Javanese: “Guwa Veryovkina”
- Latvian: “Verjovkina ala”
- Persian: “غار وریووکینا”
- Polish: “Jaskinia Wieriowkina”
- Russian: “Пещера Верёвкина”
- Spanish: “Cueva Verióvkina”
- Swedish: “Verjovkina”
- Swedish: “Verjovkinagrottan”
- Swedish: “Veryovkinagrottan”
- Thai: “ถ้ำเวียร์ยอฟกินา”
- Turkish: “Veryovkina Mağarası”
- Ukrainian: “Печера Верьовкіна”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Святое Чудо and Метро.
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