Kungur Ice Cave is a karst cave located in the Urals, near the town Kungur in Perm Krai, Russia, on the right bank of the Sylva River. The cave is famous for its ice formations and is a popular tourist landmark. Kungur Ice Cave has been known since 1703 when Peter the Great issued the decree sending a well-known geographer S.U. Remezov from Tobolsk in Kungur. He worked out the Uyezd plan and made the first sketch of the cave.
Inside the cave there is a set of narrow stone steps called “the female tears”. The name comes from the fact that a long time ago a foreign princess tripped and fell on them. After she returned home she got married. Now they say that if a lady falls down on these steps she will get married soon.
The cave is equipped with normal electrical lights that are used for tourists most of the time. Only once a year for one hour tourist groups are guided by guides with torches, to commemorate the early excursions that started more than a century ago and at that time used torches, as electricity became available in the cave only in 1950-s.