My name’s Lydia Kondratyeva, I’m 23. For the last few years I go caving with my friends from Moscow cave club Sokolniki-RUDN. I have a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy and work as a school teacher. I live and work in Moscow, Russia. We don’t have vertical caves here in Moscow region, only some stone-pits and small caves of natural origin are accessible. This picture is taken in one of local stone-pits (Silikaty):
That’s why we go outside Moscow on our big cave trips. At the present time our club has a couple of expeditions a year. The main one is taking place in July-August on the Arabika Massif, Abkhazia. That's me on the right (Arabika, entrance to the Ilyukhinskaya cave in the background):
Other trips are planned with reference to the members’ vacation and state holidays in winter, spring and autumn.
I would love to go to the US caves someday. I’ve been to the US as a student for more than 3 months and really enjoyed the people and the nature of your country. You are welcome to ask any questions on how things are organized here in our cave clubs, about Russian speleo expeditions, training and competitions. Let’s share our valuable experience
Some more pics
Cave-diver Alexey from our club in Ilyukhinskaya cave, Arabika
SRT Competition that took place on last weekend not far from Moscow
Cavers from Sokolniki-RUDN
PS. As one of my colleagues from Russia stated before (http://goo.gl/ci7RM), a lot of girls go caving in Russia, it's true. Left to right: Kate, me, Svetlana
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