Photo of Bel-Auty karst area. (Baysun-Tau Range)

Foundation for the Preservation and Exploration of Caves

Foundation for the Preservation and Exploration of Caves is a public organization is open to all comers who want to explore the world of caves and to do research in the field of karst and Speleology. The Fund has the professional experience of the research of cave systems in various scientific and applied aspects. The basic principle of speleological studies is an interdisciplinary comprehensive study of the caves, which is fundamental to the work of the Fund. Studies should be carried out at the junction of several scientific fields such as earth science, biology, history and archaeology, cultural studies and Ethnography, environmental protection, anthropology, medicine, sports, water resources, and glaciology.

2023

Speleological Expedition to a new promising karst region of the Middle Tian-Shan, August 2022

SPECIAL PROJECT – Search for caves in the unexplored karst area of Bel-Auty, Baysun-Tau ridge (Uzbekistan). 2023

2022

2020

Speleological Expedition to the Karst Areas of the Ferghana Range. South of Kyrgyzstan. August – September, 2021

Speleological expedition to the salt caves of southern Tajikistan. September, 2021

Speleological expedition to Baralday (Kazakhstan). Second half of June, 2021

Photo of Bel-Auty karst area. (Baysun-Tau Range)

International Year of Karst and Caves of UNESCO in 2021

Results of speleological project Speleostan-2017

An international meeting on speleology will be held in Turkey.

Declaration of Cooperation