Yuriy Kasyan
Ukrainian speleologist (born 1961)
Yuriy Mykhailovych Kasyan (Ukrainian: Юрій Михайлович Касьян; born 6 May 1961) is a Ukrainian speleologist, most known for his work in cave exploration, especially as the Call of the Abyss research project coordinator. He was heading the speleological expeditions to caves of the Arabika massif in Abkhazia and, with Aleksandr Klimčuk, to Aladaglar massif in Turkey. Some of the world's deepest caves were explored, including the first cave, deeper than 2,000 m, the Krubera-Voronja Cave.
Early life, education and career
Kasyan was born in Sniatyn, a small town in Western Ukraine, in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, to the north of Moldova. His father, Mykhailo Yuriyovych Kasyan, was chairman of the District Council of the Sports Society "Grain Ear", which promoted athletic development in the countryside, and his mother was a statistician in the accounting department of the district party committee. After high school in Sniatyn where he also pursued swimming and freestyle wrestling he graduated (1984) in geology at the Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas in the province capital Ivano-Frankivsk. After graduation, he moved to Poltava for a job in the regional branch of the All-Union Research and Design Institute for Explosive Geophysical Survey Methods. Kasyan continued as instructor at the Poltava regional center of education in tourism and local history and from there moved on to a career in industrial rope access.
Speleology
In the autumn of 1978, at the beginning of geology study in Ivano-Frankivsk, there were 3 available extra-curricular courses: in tourism, rock climbing and speleology. From the latter two Kasyan chose speleology as the closest to geology and joined the Ivano-Frankivsk speleo club Протей [Proteus].
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