The mysterious cave in the Khara Hora mountain range part 2

Khara-Khora cave in Kabardino-Balkaria. Sometimes called Zayukova Cave. Kharahora (Kabard.-Cherk. Khyere Khuere) is a mountain range consisting of several sharp and gentle peaks rising above the village of Zayukovo, in the Baksan Gorge of Kabardino-Balkaria. Height - 1233 meters. In 2011, after landslide processes on one of the peaks of Kharakhora, local residents discovered an underground cave that goes deep into the mountain, with perfectly even walls. The first inspections of the underground cave were carried out by local speleologists. Since the end of 2011, researchers and speleologists began to study the mountain range and the underground cave, who found that the underground mine with straight and polished narrow walls goes 40 meters deep into the mountain, and then passes into a wide underground hall, the height of which is 36 meters, and straight the walls are made of large blocks (megaliths) and fitted to each other at right angles. In total, the explored dimensions of the cave from the upper part to the lower platform are about 100 meters. Many rectangular tunnels from 5 to 20 centimeters high go from the underground hall into the thickness of the rocks. A “floating” megalith was also found in the underground hall, which is attached to the wall with only one rib, which makes it appear to be floating in the air. At the same time, Vera Davidenko, a representative of the Kabardino-Balkar Geological Exploration Expedition, believes that the cave is of natural origin: “The ejecta material was hot during accumulation, and therefore, when it solidified, separate cracks formed - that is, the entire tuff massif turned out to be, as it were, broken into blocks. The depression found near the village of Zayukovo is one of such cracks of gravity separation, which is characterized by smooth contact surfaces. The name of the mountain range Kharahora, translated from the Kabardino-Circassian language, means "Dog and Boar". This name comes from the fact that two from the top of the mountain range previously resembled the outlines of the heads of a dog and a boar. But due to mountain processes and scree, these outlines are now almost invisible. Coordinates 43°37'45.0"N 43°15'55.0"E First part here    • The mysterious cave in the Khara Hora moun...   Send part here    • The mysterious cave in the Khara Hora moun...