Oleg Klimchuk

The UNIAN archive. Oleg Klimchuk, member of the Ukrainian Speleological Association comes up from the 1300-meter-deep cave well, when achieving the mark 1580 meters during the expedition to the massif Arabica in Abkhazia on Friday, Jan. 5, 2001. The joint expedition of the Ukrainian and Russian speleologists lasted from December 25, 2000 till Jan. 18, 2001. The expedition established new world record of passing depth through the natural caves. On Jan. 7 Yuryi Kasian and Anatolyi Povyakalo reached the bottom of the cave Voronya (Cruber's) on the depth of 1710 meters. Earlier the Austrian 1630-meters-deep Lamprekhtsofen cave was considered to be the world deepest one. In summer of 2001 the Ukrainian speleologists are intended to break this new record in the mountains Ala-Daglar in Turkey. Photo by Denis Provalov/ UNIAN