Helix albescens is a species of large air-breathing land snail from eastern Europe belonging to the family Helicidae.

On the genital system, typical characters are a missing diverticulum of bursa copulatrix (gametolytic gland) and a very short flagellum.

[2] Helix albescens is distributed in southern Ukraine, southwestern Russia (Ciscaucasia) and the Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan).

[4] The species naturally occurs in shruby habitats (with Christ's thorn, blackthorn, hawthorn, etc.).

It lays its eggs in small clutches in cavities dug 5-6 cm deep into a damp soil.