Cave Brothers Greve Photo: Cave Brothers Greve

In the city of Samara, on the steep Bank of the Volga in the Falcon's mountains is a nature monument Cave Brothers Greve. The cave is a complex system of tunnels, halls, galleries and narrow manhole. Four entrances to the cave are situated between ice Cold and Koptev has been established by ravines. Chief among them is the entrance of triangular shape (height 4 m, width of base 2, 5 m.), located on a steep rocky slope, opposite the island Green, and towering thirty feet above the level of the Volga. Historical value represents the Average grotto, karst systems, where they found the objects of an ancient settlement - the remains of pottery, knives, brass ferrules from the arrows of the bronze age. Also the cave Brothers Greve interesting paleontological finds the bones of a woolly rhinoceros, cave bear skull and other remains.

Samara cave shrouded in legends and brothers Greve are the most popular characters in local folklore. Based on the book the Transfiguration "Samara and the surrounding area", where the Professor became interested in the cave with the inscription "Brothers Greve 1904", historians drew a parallel between the pharmacist grave, who came from Germany in this period, and his sons, who may have left this historical inscription, which gave the name to the cave. But unlike the legend of the missing in the cave the boys, the elder brother Leopold graduated from the Moscow Institute of medicine and the younger Conrad - after the death of his father left home.

Cave Brothers Greve is a natural attraction Samara and popular vacation destination. On a cliff usually train climbers, and one of the hard-to-reach caves attracts tourists with professional climbing skills. With the top of the mountain where the cave is situated, offers a panoramic view on the Volga river, Samara and Zhiguli gates.

I can add description


Cave Brothers Greve
The building of the railway station
Tsarev Kurgan
Museum and exhibition centre "Samara Space"
Aquapark Victoria