Veryovkina Cave

Veryovkina Cave (also spelled Verëvkina Cave, , , ) is deep, the deepest-known cave on Earth. Its entrance is situated above sea level in Abkhazia, Georgia. The entrance of the cave has a cross section of , and is located in the Arabika Massif, Gagra Mountain Range of the West Caucasus, on the pass between the Krepost and Zont mountains, closer to the slopes of Mt. Krepost. The depth of the entrance shaft is .
Naming.
In 1968, the cave was assigned the name S-115 which was later replaced by P1-7, and in 1986 it was renamed after Alexander Verëvkin. Caver and cave diver Alexander Verëvkin died in 1983 while exploring a siphon in the cave Su-Akan, located in the Sary-Tala massif, now Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia.