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Date
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Speaker
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report
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| 22.01 |
Petrov
V.V. |
The
caves of Sara-Tala (the Kabardin-Balkar Republic). |
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Markov A.V. |
A trip in Bulgaria
and the Lebanon. |
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| 19.02 |
Kisiliova
T.K. |
Memorial
dates of speleology in 2003. |
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News from expeditions. |
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Shelepin A.L. |
The
Kan'jon-Sumohvut expedition (the Abkhazian
Republic).
The Kan'jon-Sumohvut system is supposed
to be a low entrance in the famous Snezhnaya
(Snow) cave. The discharge of the underground
river in Snezhnaya takes place at 350m altitude.
The system is in a canyon bottom at 1130
altitude, not far from the Snezhnaya spring.
22 cavers from Moscow did caving in the
system 285 deep and 1130m long. 6 cavers
stayed 6 days in a camp at 220m. The cavers
followed the air and tried to push through
a narrow pass. Veterok is supposed to be
a tributary of the Snezhnayariver. The last
visit into the cave was before the War in
1992 6 cavers made a success try to go through
the end narrow pass along a stream. Unfortunately
a new hole to small to pass was found beyond.
Return trips are planned.
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Chicherov A. |
The
Snow cave expedition (the Abkhazian Republic).
(9 cavers from Moscow and 3 from St. Peterburg
made a trip into the cave in Jan. It lasted
12 days (in cave). The deepest point that
they visited was very near the bottom.
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| 19.03 |
Gelezov
P. |
The
caves of Sokotra island (Yemen, the Indian
Ocean). |
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Rishetnyak A.,
Shumeiko A.F. |
The cave diving
expedition in Sumgan-Kutuk and Sakaska spring
(the Bashkir Republic). Video. |
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Shumeiko
A.F. |
The
expedition in Pinega speleoregion (Arkhangelsk
oblast). |
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Evdokimov U.V. |
The expedition
in Postov-Phystech cave (Zagadan, the Karachai-Circassian
Republic). |
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Kisiliova
T.K. |
Memorial
dates of speleology. |
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| 23.04 |
Shumeiko A.F. |
The cave divin
exploration in Pinega speleoregion (Arkhangelsk
oblast). |
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Evdokimov
U.V. |
The exploration in Postov-Phystech cave (Zagadan,
the Karachai-Circassian Republic) |
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Melikhovskaya P.V. |
The caves of the
Bermudas. |
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Reshetov
D.E. |
The
photography expedition in Simphoniya (Pinega
speleoregion, Arkhangelsk oblast). |
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| 21.05 |
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News from spring
expeditions. |
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| 29.10 |
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News
from summer expeditions.
Press. |
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Zverev C. |
The
Napra expedition (the Abkhazian Republic).
20 ñavers from Perovo-speleo club (Moscow)
continued their exploration in Napra (the
West Caucasus, the Bzybskij range, Abkhazia).
It was the third expedition. They finished
the exploration of a new gallery at a depth
of 930m, which turned out to be 150 m long.
They made underground climbing (about 20m)
in several drops. |
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Utrobin
D. |
The
New Cave expedition (the Abkhazian Republic)
Cavers from Sokolniky-RUDN club (Moscow)
continued the exploration of New Cave (the
West Caucasus, the Gugrinskij range, Abkhazia).
The focus of most of their attention was
a hole at a depth of 300m just too small
to pass with apparent drop beyond. They
were able to work their way through the
hole to the drop, which had a depth of 60m.
They were out of time, a return trip is
planned.
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Petrov V. |
A
trip in Abkhazia.
A speaker made the first after the War
trip along the most popular cave areas in
Abkhazia from the river Bzyb to the capital
Sukhumi. He discovered quite safe surroundings
except some place near the capital throughout
which mines had been laid.
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Snetkoff
E. |
The
Akschasch expeditions (the Abkhazian Republic).
There was made progress in Akschasch (the
West Caucasus, the west slopes of the Bzybskij
range, Abkhazia). It is a possible entrance
in Mchishta - the greatest spring in the
Caucasus. A few cavers (mainly from Moscow)
worked there in different time from May
to September. With the use of perforator
etc. they were able to work their way through
a lot of holes too small to pass (15 m3
of fragments were thrown away). The cave
turned out to be 90 deep. There are 70m
in height from the bottom of the cave to
the ceiling of a hall in Mchishta.
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Eugene Rumyantsev |
Caving
in Sarma (the Abkhazian Republic)
Many cavers (mainly from Siberia and the
Urals) continued their exploration in Sarma
(the West Caucasus, the Gugrinskij range,
Abkhazia). The cave is about 1649m deep
and 6 km long (major passages are about
3 km). The entrance of the cave is at 2150m
altitude. The main discharge of the underground
streams takes place in a spring at about
100m altitude. A few cavers from Moscow
also took part in the expedition. A speaker
told his expression. There are many branches
in the cave and passages are intersected.
The Moscow group made a camp at a depth
of 1100m and stayed there for 6 days. They
found a new 125m drop and pushed it to connection
with a known part of the cave. The cave
is quite dangerous because of floods.
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Shelepin
A. |
The
Kan'jon-Sumohvut expedition (the Abkhazian
Republic)
7 cavers from Moscow continued their exploration
in cave system Kan'jon-Sumohvut (the West
Caucasus, the Bzybskij range, Abkhazia).
The system is a possible lower entrance
in famous Snow cave. The expedition lasted
two weeks. The cavers followed the air through
breakdown-filled passages, sometimes with
the use of perforator etc. The cave became
deeper from 285m to 333m and longer from
1115 to 1300. A speaker noticed that it
is not safe for such small group to trip
without a rifle.
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| 19.11 |
Mavludov
B.R, Travin V. |
The
ice-cave investigation in some glaciers
of Spitsbergen.Press.
Aldegonda's drops (The expedition in ice-caves
of Spitsbergen) Bulat Mavludov
The Institute of Geography (Russian Academy
of Science) had been investigated the ice-caves
of Spitsbergen for 3 years. Every ice-cave
in the Aldegonda's glacier has an entrance
drop (the deepest one is 80 m) and a followed
gallery with a sump. After the sump to the
surface the water of the stream drains through
the glacier nearly horizontally.
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| 9.12 |
(together
with branch of Physical geography MCRGO and
geographical faculty of the Moscow State University) |
A
session on the 90th anniversary of prominent
karstolog Gwozdechij N.A. |
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| 17.12 |
Koval V.,
Kosorucov U.S., Kedeyarova N., Lubimov P.,
Nikolskij A.,
Travin V. |
Cave photography. |
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Andreva
S. |
The
Congress of ASU ( the Assosiation of speleologes
of the Ural) |
