Urban Legends
Игорь326 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Игорь326 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Folklore

The Askinskaya Ice Cave

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A cave in Bashkortostan with a single chamber holding ice columns up to eleven metres tall, grown over centuries. The temperature stays below freezing all year: cold air flows in during winter and cannot get out. Bashkir tradition places a guardian spirit here, to whom offerings were left at the mouth. In the 2010s visitor numbers damaged some of the columns and the cave was closed to open access.

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