Cave Brothers Greve
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In the city of Samara on the Volga river in the steep mountains of Sokolov is a natural monument Cave Brothers Greve. The cave is a complex system of tunnels, halls, galleries and narrow manholes. Four cave entrance located between Koptev The cold and ravines. Chief among them is the entrance of triangular shape (the height of 4 m., The width of the base 2, 5 m.), Located on a steep rocky slope opposite the island Zelёnenky and towering thirty meters above the Volga. The historical value is the average grotto karst system where the objects were found ancient settlement - the remnants of ceramic pottery, knives, bronze tips of the arrows of the Bronze Age. Also Cave Brothers Greve interesting paleontological finds - bones of the woolly rhinoceros, cave bear skulls and other. Remains.

Samara cave shrouded in many legends and brothers Greve are the most popular characters in the local folklore. Based on the book of the Transfiguration "Samara and neighborhood" where the professor became interested in the cave with the inscription "Brothers Greve 1904", historians drew a parallel between the pharmacist Grave, who came from Germany in this period, and his sons, who may have left this historic label, which gave the name of the cave. But unlike the legend of the missing boys in the cave, the elder brother Leopold graduated from the Moscow Institute of Medicine, and the youngest - Conrad - after the death of his father left home.

Cave Brothers Greve is a natural landmark and popular destination Samara outdoor activities. On the steep rock climbers usually train, but one of the hard grottoes attracts tourists with professional mountaineering skills. On top of the mountain, where there is a cave, panoramic views of the Volga River, Samara and Zhiguli Gate.

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