Salt mine
Soledar, Donetsk region, Ukraine
Description:
The salt mines are part of the complex of developed salt mines Artemsol, which are currently open to visitors.
The first salt mine in this area was opened in 1881. It's been in business for over a hundred years. During this time in the ground formed workings, the length of which is more than two hundred kilometers. The height of some workings reaches thirty meters.
The main attraction here is the Salt Hall called “Camera 41-bis”. It was here that in 2003 the Guinness record for the first underground ballooning was set.
Symphony concerts are sometimes held here.
In the mines there are also several salt sculptures made by folk craftsmen, there is even a salt church.
At a depth of three hundred meters there is a salt sanatorium. People come to him who have respiratory diseases.