| Name: | KUNGUR ICE CAVE |
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| Name original: | KUNGUR ICE CAVE |
| Type of member: | Full member |
| Country: | Russia |
| State / Region: | |
| Town / City: | Perm Krai, 617472 |
| Number of visitors: | 100000 / per year |
| Phone: | +7.34271.626 |
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| Fax: | +7.34271.62609 |
| E-mail: | stalagmit@rambler.ru |
| Web: | www.kungurcave.ru |
country: Russia
Kungur Ice cave is one of the oldest show caves within Russia. Total amount of visitors per year is exceeded 100000. The Kungur Ice Cave distinguishes from similar objects of underground world with these parameters:
1.The lowest hypsometrical entrance height (119,99 м. above the sea level) amongst caves with permanent ice formations, situated outside the permafrost zones.
2.Unique conditions of the cave ice formation, richness and diversity of its forms (congelation, sublimate and sedimentary-metamorphic ices, different in origin and forms with small volume of ice sediments), equilibrium position of subterranean glacier (natural seasonal decrease is annually compensated).
date from: 03. November 2010 | date to: 30. November 2010
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