There is a peculiar cave in Taimyr. Usually it is hidden from the people’s eye. But when a wanderer has gone astray, found himself in trouble and is within an inch of death because of frost and snowstorm, the cave comes in his sight, gives the shelter and saves his life. It has rescued many people in trouble. The Russian traveler and explorer of Siberia A. T. von Middendorff mentioned the cave in his notes as long ago as in 18 century. And he was not the only who owed the small cave his life. A hundred years before him the cave gave a shelter to Khariton Leptev, who had fallen ill; and in 1929 there found the cover another explorer of Taimyr, N.N Urvantsev (it was he who gave the name of Middendorff to this wonderful cave). In 1992 during the transtaimyr skiing passage the cave sheltered the members of expedition of the Academy of Travelling (Krasnoyarsk) with its leader A. Vasilyev for about two days, until the snowstorm was over.
The information is provided by the Government of the Dogano-Nenets district, Taimyr.