The well-known climatic and mud-health resort "Sergeevka" (Odessa region, Belgorod-Dniester region) is located at the exit of the Budak estuary to the Black Sea. It consists of 8 resorts, children's health camps, boarding houses and hotels, occupying almost 650 hectares of the coast.
Shabolatsky estuary - one of the oldest resorts in the Northern Black Sea region
On the shores of the spit to the north and south of the Tsaregradsky line of the Dniester estuary and Shabolatsky estuary lake there are sanatoriums, campsites, boarding houses and rest houses, which are territorially related to the villages of Zatoka, Sergeevka and Kurortnoye. In season, on a sand spit that separates two estuaries from the sea, the apple has nowhere to fall. Everywhere on the beaches, multi-colored clusters of sun umbrellas, bronze tanning bodies of holidaymakers, water slides and other entertainment facilities on the seashore flash .
Paleogeographers and archaeologists claim that 25 centuries ago, in these places, it was also crowded. Large settlements were located here, and the estuary served as a trade corridor and a link between the cultures of Ancient Greece and Asia Minor. A new round of popularity of the Shabolatsky estuary was provided by Odessa balneologists who studied in the last decades of the 19th century the physicochemical parameters of local brine, mud and mineral springs. The healing factors of estuary have been praised by scientists. The first mud baths began to be built in 1895, 1921 is considered to be the beginning of the Soviet stage of the development of the resort of Sergeevka.
How to get to the village. Sergeevka (Odessa region, Ukraine)
The urban-type settlement is located southwest of the regional center. Minibuses to Sergeevka depart from the Privoz bus station near Odessa Train Station. Along the sandy spit Karolino-Bugaz-Zatoka, you need to drive to the right bank of the Dniester estuary, pass the villages of Pribrezhnoye and Belenkoye. The distance from Odessa to Sergeevka is 80 km.
The resort is located opposite the central part of the sand spit that separates the Shabolatsky (Budaksky) estuary. You can get here by minibus from the regional center, the final destination of which is the village of Sergeevka (Odessa region), or catch the transport going to Belgorod-Dniester. In the second case, you need to get off at the stop called the “fork” and transfer to the minibus “Belgorod-Dniester-Sergeevka”. Sergeevka is about 6 km from the Odessa-Belgorod-Dniester highway.
You can get to the village by personal transport (there are signs on the highway). The roadway on the bypass to Sergeyevka past the village of Belenkoye looks better. In other sections of the highway, it can be dotted with potholes and cracks. There are enough parking places in the village, on the territory of hotels and recreation centers. Cars are the main form of transport on the land side of the resort. In addition to it, there are seasonal transport of passengers between the estuary and the sea in boats and boats.
Resort Sergeevka (Odessa region). Reviews of tourists and vacationers
The resort village in Soviet times was considered one of the best children's health resorts. Parents of sick children had high hopes for the healing powers of climate, peloids of the estuary and mineral water and were not deceived in their expectations. Children returned from Sergeevka rested, tanned, able to withstand many ailments. Doctors believe that the healing factors of the resort are useful for patients of any age suffering from diseases of nerves, joints, spine and blood vessels.
The health complexes of the village of Sergeevka (Odessa region) accept everyone who wants to undergo a course of spa treatment and just relax on the seashore. Vacationers in their comments note the beneficial effects on human health of climatic conditions, water and mud Shabolatskogo estuary. A number of tourist reviews are devoted to the quality of services and prices. Guests of Sergeevka who have been coming to the resort for more than a year have noticed progress in improving the service, low prices for accommodation and meals (compared to Odessa, Koblevo, Zatoka).
According to the patients of sanatoriums, the resort is perfect for wellness and family vacations. Doctors and other medical staff have the necessary qualifications. One of the shortcomings noted in the comments is the equipping of the rooms with furniture from the Soviet period. Surprised by many guests of Sergeevka, charging for passage and passage on the bridge connecting the village and the sea coast. However, it is not noticeable that funds are being directed to repair and improve the infrastructure of this transition.
Climate and natural surroundings
The temperate continental climate of the territory is characterized by a significant number of hours of sunshine and days in a year (290 out of 365 days). The warm period begins in April and lasts until October inclusive. The average summer temperature is +25 ° C, in July and August it often rises in the afternoon to +32 ... + 35 ° C. Precipitation is not enough with this amount of solar radiation - 350 mm / year. Southern winters are not snowy, short and mild.
The landscapes of the Shabolatsky estuary and the village of Sergeevka (Odessa region) are amazingly beautiful. Photos of the resort give an idea of the lack of industrial enterprises in the area, the cleanliness of the sand spit and beaches on the seashore. The steppes in the vicinity of Sergeevka are used by the population for gardening and viticulture. In the village itself there are fruit trees, boxwood alleys and other evergreen plantings.
Healing factors of the resort Sergeevka
The air from the Black Sea steppes on the estuary is mixed with sea breezes, a natural cocktail is obtained - one of the local healing factors. The water of the Shabolatsky estuary lake has long been used for taking mineral baths, rinses, compresses. Local silt mud does not contain harmful impurities, they are useful in the treatment of a large group of diseases. The springs opened in the resort provide mineral water resembling Kuyalnik and Mirgorodskaya in terms of their chloride-sodium-magnesium composition.
Natural medicinal-table waters and other healing factors are applied by the children's sanatorium "Sergeevka" (Odessa region) and other health resorts of this resort area. Local grape varieties grown in rainfed lands are characterized by a high content of vitamins, minerals, fructose and glucose. Berry juice is also a healing cocktail, but its use for treatment has a number of contraindications (some gastrointestinal diseases).
Treatment of specialized diseases and general recovery
The medical specialization of the main sanatoriums for children and adults in Sergeevka:
- treatment and rehabilitation for disorders of the musculoskeletal system;
- cardiovascular ailments;
- ENT organs and non-specific diseases of the respiratory system;
- violations of the digestive tract;
- diseases of the nervous system;
- pathology of the urological and sexual spheres.
Hydrotherapy and peloid therapy are used in the sanatoriums of Sergeevka for neurological and joint diseases, osteochondrosis, gynecological and skin ailments. Wellness centers conduct balneological procedures, widely use speleotherapy and a variety of herbal remedies.
The main therapeutic factors - water, peloids, air - use the children's sanatorium "Sergeevka" (Odessa region). Physiotherapy, massage, reflexology, exercise therapy, and a therapeutic diet are offered to small and adult patients in health resorts. A number of spa facilities practice kinetotherapy. Some resorts have a modern technical base for laser treatment, clinical diagnostic laboratories and offices, pharmacies.
Sanatorium "Horizon"
Vacationers stay in health centers, hotels, the private sector of the village. Sergeevka (Odessa region). The sanatorium "Horizon" is one of the modern health resorts of the resort, with a large number of rooms. They treat the musculoskeletal system disease, the nervous system in an institution, and relieve inflammation in gynecological diseases and chronic prostatitis. In the sanatorium "Horizon" they help with chronic inflammatory phenomena in the lungs and bronchi (non-tuberculous nature).
An extensive list of medical services is complemented by climatotherapy, health path, hydrokinesitherapy. Patients are prescribed internal consumption of mineral waters, mud compresses and tampons, balneotherapy in the form of baths with various healing components (pearl, coniferous, turpentine).
How the children's health resort "Sergeevka" works
In Soviet times, they attached great importance to the treatment and rehabilitation of children. Many guys came to Sergeevka for free trips. Thousands of boys and girls underwent medical procedures on the shore of the Shabolatsky estuary since 1986, when the children's sanatorium "Sergeevka" (Odessa region) opened its doors to the first young patients. The photo of one of the buildings in the article gives an idea of the almost home environment in the health resort. The main part of the territory is reserved for the park area, game and sports grounds, there is a hall, a library is working.
Sanatorium "Sergeevka" (Odessa region) can simultaneously take up to 400 children (6-14 years) to rest and improve. The average duration of one shift is 18 days. From September to May, training sessions for school-age children (in the afternoon) are organized. The medical specialization of the health resort is respiratory diseases, cardiovascular ailments, ENT disorders, and pathology of the musculoskeletal system.
Golden beaches of Sergeevka
The main thing that the Odessa region occupies a coastal position is famous for is recreation. Sergeevka in geographical position differs from the regional center and a number of resorts on the coast. The village, all its sanatoriums and hotels were built on the shore of the Shabolatsky estuary. Warm and shallow pond, sand spit separate Sergeevka and the sea. You need to go to the golden beaches of the resort or drive along the bridge, or cross by boat, motor boat.