One of Jules Verne's most cherished dreams, as published in his 1864 novel “Journey to the Center of the Earth”, was to enter the interior of the Earth. Although the Veryovkina Cave does not take us to these depths, it does allow us to get as close as we know to the center of the planet.
The Veryovkina Cave, at about 2,212 meters deep, is one of the deepest caves in the world.
It is located in the pass between the Krepost and Zont mountains in the Abkhazia region, a self-declared independent state that is officially considered part of Georgia. In 1968, the cave was discovered by speleologists from the city of Krasnoyarsk, who managed to reach a depth of 115 meters.
In 1986, a new group from Moscow and led by Oleg Parfenov managed to reach the considerable depth of 440 meters. Since 2015, a series of new incursions by the Perovo-Speleo group have determined that the cave was deeper, reaching new and better marks repeatedly until reaching the record of 2,212 meters in March 2018 and recording an underground tunnel system of more than 6000 meters.