Bzyb Range

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A place, where Gagra Range comes the most closely to Bzyb Range is called Stone Sack. This place is a tourist attraction. One can see a mounts of both ranges overhead. This is a view from Stone Sack to lower stream of Bzyb River.
A place, where Gagra Range comes the most closely to Bzyb Range is called Stone Sack. This place is a tourist attraction. One can see a mounts of both ranges overhead. This is a view from Stone Sack to lower stream of Bzyb River.

Bzyb Range (Abkhaz: Агеишьха) is a mountain range in Abkhazia on the Southern slope of the Western part of Caucasus Major, running in parallel to it.

The Bzyb Range length is about 50 km and elevation up to 3,033 m, the composition is mainly limestone with pronounced karst landscape. It is bounded by the valley of Bzyb River from North and West and partially by the valley of Kelasuri River, which separates it from the Abkhaz Range.

Of attractions is the Snowy Cave (ru:Пещера Снежная), the most speleologically complex in Russia (and in the whole Soviet Union).