Health-improving areas and resorts are a category of lands that are used to organize treatment and recreation for citizens. The value of such territories lies in the location of certain natural resources on them in the form of mineral waters, mud, brine of estuaries, in some cases even the climate (sea, mountain, forest) has a healing effect.
On the composition and zones of land
Health and wellness areas and resorts are attractive for tourists who seek to improve their health and relax. In fact, such territories consist of several components:
- Directly to the area on which the resources are located with a healing effect and which is suitable for the treatment and prevention of diseases.
- Resort. It is a developed territory, on which there are infrastructure, buildings and structures, and which is surrounded by a sanitary protection zone.
Resorts and therapeutic areas may have up to three zones, each of which must meet a number of requirements:
- The first zone is the territories on which it is forbidden to live and engage in economic activity. Here you can conduct research, use natural healing resources for a healing purpose, using environmentally friendly and rational technologies.
- The second zone suggests that it is impossible to locate industrial or agricultural facilities, structures that are not related to the sphere of spa recreation or treatment.
- In the third zone it is impossible to have industrial and agricultural facilities, to conduct economic activities.
Certain rules are established for medical and recreational areas and resorts, especially regarding the environmental situation.
Which are there?
Resorts are territories with natural healing factors and conditions that allow their use for treatment and prevention. In order for a specific territory to be recognized as a resort, it must meet several requirements:
- certain natural resources should be concentrated on it, which can be used for the purpose of healing,
- buildings and technical structures for use (swimming pools, beaches) are being erected on the territory,
- the facility should include facilities for rest (motels, guest houses), medical and preventive institutions for medical care of the population, have health facilities, sports facilities, playgrounds.
There are various types of health-improving places and resorts, the specialization of which depends on natural healing factors. We offer an overview of the most popular types of resorts.
Balneological resorts
The peculiarity of balneological resorts is that the main healing factor is natural mineral waters. Therapeutic areas and resorts of this type offer outdoor baths, as well as inhalation or drinking. Mineral waters have long been proven effective in treating a wide variety of diseases, and it is not required to use any medications.
Balneological resorts of Russia
In many medical and recreational areas and resorts in Russia they offer healing with the help of mineral waters. The largest balneological center of the country is a group of resorts located in the Caucasus. They are concentrated in Pyatigorsk, Kislovodsk and Zheleznovodsk. So, the resort in Kislovodsk is more than 200 years old; here, diseases of the stomach, intestines, and respiratory organs are treated with narzan. In the sanatoriums of Pyatigorsk there are more than 40 mineral springs. Yeysk is popular on the Sea of Azov, in the healing waters of which hydrogen sulfide is contained.
The very first balneological resort in Russia is the “Marcial Waters” in Karelia, which were discovered by Peter I. The resort of Paratunka operates in Kamchatka, where you can cure bronchi, nervous system, skin diseases in hot, low-mineralized springs.
Mud Resorts
Mud resorts are formed where there are deposits of therapeutic mud. This method of healing is used to treat diseases of the joints, the nervous system. Peat mud, silt, clay silt, sapropel are used as therapeutic ones. The physiological effect of therapeutic mud is explained by the complex effect on the body of several factors at once - temperature, chemical and mechanical.
Bright examples of health-improving places and resorts of this type are Pyatigorsk (silt mud), sanatoriums near Moscow or in Central Russia, where the treatment is based on sapropel mud, rich in organic substances and salts. The list of the most popular mud resorts in Russia also includes:
- Elton Lake (Volgograd Region): the water in this lake is of high density due to the abundance of salts in the composition. Silt mud contains phosphorus, iron, silicon, calcium, sulfur. This composition has a positive effect on blood flow, restores sleep, improves mood.
- Sadogorod (Vladivostok): silty mud, which contains a huge amount of elements, is the visiting card of this area. Recommended treatment and rehabilitation of patients who had injuries of the spine, spinal cord.
- Saki (Crimea): the bottom of Saki Lake is covered with mineral elements, algae, and mud, which will help heal female ailments, get rid of skin problems, and improve the digestive process.
It is proved that the composition of the therapeutic mud is the best possible effect on the state of human health.
Climate Resorts
Many health-improving areas and resorts in the country help to cure certain diseases with the help of climate. The so-called climate resorts are coastal and continental, and the latter, in turn, are flat and mountainous. Consider the features of these resort areas.
The most popular from the point of view of the positive impact of the climate are bioclimatic resources located in the Gulf of Finland, the Baltic and the Black Sea. Among the popular seaside resorts, the most attractive for tourists are Sestroretsk, Komarovo, where in summer you can conduct a wide range of climate procedures directly in the open. On the Baltic coast, large resort areas are Svetologorsk, Zelenogradsk. The marine climate of temperate latitudes has a sparing effect on the body. There are favorable conditions for aerotherapy.
On the Black Sea coast, you can do wellness in Gelendzhik, Anapa, Kabardinka, Dzhanhot. The Mediterranean climate with mild winters is ideal for wellness activities. We offer a list of health-improving areas and resorts that are most in demand among tourists.
Karelia
The Republic of Karelia with the administrative center in Petrozavodsk offers a lot of options for recreation and recreation. The oldest sanatorium of the republic is Marcial waters, the healing factors of which are as follows:
- Mineral waters: here several sources are discovered and used at once, characterized by low mineralization and having different compositions. The advantage of Marcial waters is that the water contains divalent ferrous iron, the volumes of which are very large.
- Therapeutic mud of valuable varieties: they differ in a complex composition, close to hormones and vitamins. Mud has proven itself in the treatment of diseases of the spine and joints.
- Climatotherapy: thanks to the mild climate in the region and the healing air, a powerful healing effect is provided.
You need to understand that the land of health-improving areas and resorts are among the specially protected. They can only be used for treatment and relaxation.
Leningrad region
In the Leningrad Region there are several resort areas at once, which is explained by the location of the region between the Gulf of Finland, surrounded by Ladoga and Onega lakes. The combination of a mild climate with an abundance of forests and the sea coast creates excellent conditions for recovery.
The Leningrad Region was included in the list of medical and recreational areas and resorts in Russia for a huge number of sanatoriums located along the banks of water bodies. There are several resort areas with healing factors in the region:
- Such popular resorts as Sestroretsk, Zelenogorsk, Komarovo, Serovo, Ushkovo, Repino are concentrated on the Gulf of Finland. The climate typical of marine areas, clean ionized air, mineral waters, the coniferous aroma of pine forests - all this has a positive effect on the health of vacationers.
- Vyborg resort area is located 130 km from the cultural capital of Russia. It has two parts - seaside and forest. Here, the combination of a mild climate, clean sea or forest air is responsible for the healing effect. In local sanatoriums, physiotherapy, massage, therapeutic gymnastics are used as procedures.
- The southern coast of the Gulf of Finland is represented by climatic and balneological resorts, which are planted with coniferous and deciduous trees. Local natural resources, which are widely used for medicinal purposes, are represented not only by the climate, but also by sodium chloride water, sapropelic mud, on the basis of which bathtubs and applications are made.
- The Luga resort area (139 km from St. Petersburg) has coniferous forested areas with numerous rivers and lakes. It is also possible to treat with climate, sodium chloride waters with high salinity. Local resorts have aerosolarias, climate pads for children and adults, and photo farms. On the territory there are even routes on which patients, with the permission of a doctor, can take walks.
In the Leningrad region are some of the best resorts in the country, which are ready to receive guests at any time of the year.
Kaliningrad region
The list of Russian resorts that are suitable for medical purposes will be incomplete without the Kaliningrad region. The westernmost region of our country is distinguished by a transitional climate from marine to temperate continental. The most popular resorts in the region are Zelenogradsk and Svetlogorsk. Like the rest of the land of health-improving areas and resorts, these are of several types. For example, Zelenogradsk acts as a balneo-mud and climatic seaside resort of the forest zone, located directly on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
The healing factors of Zelenogradsk are directly related to the natural features of the territory. There is sodium chloride water containing bromine and peat mud in combination with clean ionized air. This combination of natural factors positively affects the state of the nervous system, bones and muscles, and the circulatory system. Local mineral water with excellent healing properties is also highly appreciated by experts.
The climatic and balneological resort of federal significance is Svetlogorsk, which is 39 km from Kaliningrad. One gets the feeling that nature itself created excellent conditions for healing the body. There are many mineral springs in the vicinity, there are peat deposits and bicarbonate water - all this produces a powerful healing effect.
Moscow region
The lands of medical and recreational areas and resorts belong to specially protected areas. There are those in the Moscow region, which boasts picturesque landscapes surrounded by coniferous and deciduous forests, lakes and rivers. Many local resorts offer wellness programs that help treat a wide range of diseases.
Krasnodar region
The richest and most diverse mineral springs are the resorts of the Krasnodar Territory. So, the largest balneological resort of the south is Sochi with the main resort areas (Lazarevsky, Central, Adler and Khostinsky). In Sochi, the combination of the advantages of the subtropics and the forces of nature in the form of the sea, warm sun and clean air is an ideal combination. The water of the Black Sea is rich in chlorine, iodine, bromine, carbonates, sodium, potassium and other elements.
The diversified and unique resort is the city of Caucasian Mineral Waters. In a small area concentrated a huge number of mineral water deposits. All the leading resorts - Pyatigorsk, Essentuki, Kislovodsk, Zheleznovodsk - are located on this territory. Local sanatoriums are aimed at treating a variety of diseases - from the respiratory system and nervous system to blood circulation
Whatever the problems of the lands of medical and recreational areas and resorts, these areas are created by nature itself so that people with various diseases can undergo rehabilitation or prevention with the maximum benefit for their body.