IN2005,MORETHAN6
MILLIONTOURISTSAND
TRAVELERSVISITEDCRIMEA.
THISFIGUREEXCEEDED
THEPASTYEAR’SRESULTBY
ALMOST1MILLION. THUS,
CRIMEAHASPRACTICALLY
RESTOREDTHE LEVELOF
POPULARITYOFTHE1980S.
ATTHESOVIETTIME, CRIMEA
WASCONSIDEREDTOBEA
PRESTIGIOUSRESORTWHERE
MANYPEOPLEFROMTHE
HUGECOUNTRYSPENTTHEIR
VACATIONS.
CRIMEA
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P
eople always went to Crimea
not only to spend their leaves
but also to improve health. The
range of diseases they cure here
is vast – anything from cold to
sterility. There are roughly 600
sanatoriums in Crimea and each of them has
its unique specialty.
One of themost popular and efficient
forms of treatment is balneology ormineral
water treatment. It helps treat not only heart
and vascular diseases but also spine traumas,
blooddiseases, skindiseases, nervous disorders,
musculoskeletal system andgynecology
problems. Balneology is recommended for
internal and external treatment – in the form
of baths, showers, sprinkling and swimming
inpoolswith curativewater. Effect of drinking
mineral water depends on the composition,
temperature and time of consumption.
Mud-bath resorts formany years have
attractedpeople to such cities inCrimea as
Yevpatoria, Saki, Feodossia and Sudak. Over
thepast decades,mineral water treatment has
becomepopular also at the SouthCoast resorts
and in Sevastopol and Sympheropol.
In addition tonatural sea andmineral water,
Crimean resorts offer artificial baths: carbon,
iodide-bromine, coniferous, sage and even
“pearl”baths.Water treatment departments
use different kinds of showers: ascending
shower, descending shower, circulating shower,
Charcot’s douche, underwater shower, etc.
Mud treatment
is just as popular. Every
year, hundreds of thousands of people come
toCrimea to treat their diseaseswithmud-
baths. It reallyworks! According to their
composition, mud springs couldbe of peat,
muck, sulfide-sludge or volcanic type. Their
action is anesthetic, anti-inflammatory and
wound-healing.
“Lakewithdollars on the bottom”– this is
how Kerchpeople name their uniqueChocrack
lake. It has all the necessary things: ecological
purity, healthy climate, excellent beaches of
Azov and Black Sea plus therapeuticmud,
brine, mineral and thermal sources. Mud in this
lake has anti-microbe properties that helped
thousands of people to restore health. Chocrak
helps healing 50 different diseases including
diabetes and sterility.
There isMoynaki lake near Yevpatoria, which
is also famous for its therapeuticmud. Healing
properties of thiswonderful lake exceed those
of the famous Dead Sea and summer heat in
Yevpatoria is not as intense as in Israel. Moynaki
