It is composed of Lower Cretaceous and Upper Jurassic limestones that dip continuously southwest to the Black Sea and plunge below the modern sea level. The Arabika Massif is one of the largest high-mountain limestone karst massifs (the main mass of an exposed structure) in the Western Caucasus, which is an area of southern Russia. The name was used as slang by Kiev cavers during the 1980s because of the number of crows nesting in the entrance pit. The cave is called Voronya in Russia, which means crow's cave. It is the only cave on Earth deeper than 6,561ft ( 2,000metres). The Krubera cave is the deepest cave on Earth and is located in the Arabika Massif of the Gagrinsky Range in Abkhazia.
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