Sarma cave
{{Short description|Karst cave in the Georgia}}
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Sarma Cave ({{lang-ka|სარმის მღვიმე}}), located in the Gagra District of Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia, is the third-deepest recorded cave in the world. Its depth (1830 m) was measured in 2012 by a team led by Pavel Rudko.{{cite web|last=Klimchouk|first=Alexander|title=The second deepest cave in the World became deeper|url=http://www.speleogenesis.info/news/?id=216|publisher=Speleogenesis|accessdate=25 May 2014|date=28 Aug 2012}}
The cave was discovered in 1990 by caver Sergey Shipitsin during a research expedition of the Arabika caving club from Irkutsk, led by Alexander Osintsev.
Fauna
Two species of stygobiont amphipods have been found: Zenkevitchia sandroruffoi,[https://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/nauplius/media/copepedia/taxa/T4031336/ Zenkevitchia sandroruffoi] COPEPEDIA living at depths of no more than -350 m and found in other caves of eastern Arabika Massif, in Troika Cave (at -30 m) and in Eagle's Nest Cave (-75 m); and Adaugammarus pilosus,[https://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/nauplius/media/copepedia/taxa/T4026506/ Adaugammarus pilosus] COPEPEDIA inhabiting aquatic biotopes in the deep part of the cave (elevations -1270 m and -1700 m).{{Cite journal|last=Sidorov|first=Dmitry A.|last2=Gontcharov|first2=Andrey A.|last3=Sharina|first3=Svetlana N.|date=2015-12-24|title=A new genus and two new species of cavernicolous amphipods (Crustacea: Typhlogammaridae) from the Western Caucasus|url=https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/290|journal=European Journal of Taxonomy|language=en|issue=168|doi=10.5852/ejt.2015.168|issn=2118-9773|doi-access=free}}
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