Most of Fanagoria cave Photo: Big Fanagoria cave

Most of Fanagoria cave is a natural monument, which is located on the right Bank of the river Fedor, 12 km South-West of Fanagoria of the village, in the place of the confluence of two streams - the Cave of the slit and Burlachenko slit. The length of the cave is a little less than 1500 m, and a height of 25 m.

The first written mention of the cave date back to 1666, In the late XIX - early XX century, despite the difficult path, the cave was frequently visited by the pilgrims, who sought the prayers to God.

There is a version that karst channel Fanagoria of the cave went to the Black sea, about 25 km from Colonel V. Kamenev, who was a party to the establishment of the Park under Abzakhi mountain, in 1881 having been in this cave is said that the cave is a historical and speleological and medical value.

Cave passages laid on the largest cracks. Most of Fanagoria the cave is a whole gallery, which sometimes expands in quite large rooms. The entrance to the cave is 1, 5×1, 5 m. Then extends in a narrow hallway, which leads into the first room with a SAG. Just cavity has four large halls. The largest hall is the third, the length of which is 34 m. All subsequent rooms have a length of about 30 m, width – 15 m, and the height up to 30 m.

For all time of existence in the cave formed a huge amount of sinter. On the walls you can see dripstone calcite crust and Druze of calcite. Some sinters reach 4-5 m In the walls of the cave also has many indentations, cavities and niches. One of the attractions of the cave is a stone waterfall, which is a powerful calcite netacnost on a former thread.

High ionization of the air in a Large Fanagoria the cave has beneficial effects on the human body, helping to cure many ailments.

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