Boybuloq

One of the most beautiful caves in Uzbekistan is Boybuloq. Boybuloq(additionally referred to as Boy-Bulok and Boj-Bulok, Uzbek: Boybuloq, Russian: Бой-Булок) is a limestone give way Uzbekistan, the private give way Central Asia and all Asia besides its western part. The cave is 1,430 metres (4,690 ft) deep and 15,212 metres (49,908 ft) long with the primary front at an elevation of 2,647 metres (8,684 ft). It is located at the threshold of Baysun-Tau mountain ridge, the southern spur of the Gissar Range, withinside the southeast of the country. The nearest village is Dehibolo (Дюйбало in Russian), to the northeast of Boysun.

The cave advanced withinside the blanketed karst of Upper and Middle Jurassic limestones, in monoclinal strata, withinside the preserved wing of an anticline. The thickness of limestone strata is from 2 hundred to 350 meters. Contrary to maximum limestone caves it turned into now no longer shaped via way of means of water precipitation penetrating from the floor but, because the soluble rock is blanketed via way of means of insoluble strata, via way of means of condensation.Hence the cave is composed specifically of very slim passages which descend alongside the incident attitude of strata, sometimes interrupted via way of means of vertical shafts, no deeper than 30 metres (ninety eight ft), and ends with an impassable siphon.

It turned into explored via way of means of Russian cavers in view that 1984, withinside the framework of Ekaterinburg Speleo Club (SGS) and the Assoсiation of Ural speleologists (ASU), with the participation of cavers from Italy, Great Britain, Slovakia, France and Switzerland (in chronological order).

Location: Dehibolo, Uzbekistan