Crimea Cures All Maladies

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In 2005, more than 6 million tourists and travelers visited Crimea. This figure exceeded the past year’s result by almost 1 million. Thus, Crimea has practically restored the level of popularity of the 1980s. At the Soviet time, Crimea was considered to be a prestigious resort where many people from the huge country spent their vacations.

People 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 the most popular and efficient forms of treatment is balneology or mineral water treatment. It helps treat not only heart and vascular diseases but also spine traumas, blood diseases, skin diseases, nervous disorders, musculoskeletal system and gynecology problems. Balneology is recommended for internal and external treatment – in the form of baths, showers, sprinkling and swimming in pools with curative water. Effect of drinking mineral water depends on the composition, temperature and time of consumption.

Crimea Cures All Maladies

Mud-bath resorts for many years have attracted people to such cities in Crimea as Yevpatoria, Saki, Feodossia and Sudak. Over the past decades, mineral water treatment has become popular also at the South Coast resorts and in Sevastopol and Sympheropol.

In addition to natural sea and mineral 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 to Crimea to treat their diseases with mudbaths. It really works! According to their composition, mud springs could be of peat, muck, sulfide-sludge or volcanic type. Their action is anesthetic, anti-inflammatory and wound-healing.

“Lake with dollars on the bottom” – this is how Kerch people name their unique Chocrack lake. It has all the necessary things: ecological purity, healthy climate, excellent beaches of Azov and Black Sea plus therapeutic mud, 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 is Moynaki lake near Yevpatoria, which is also famous for its therapeutic mud. Healing properties of this wonderful lake exceed those of the famous Dead Sea and summer heat in Yevpatoria is not as intense as in Israel. Moynaki lake is good for treatment of children and teenagers with rheumatism, nervous system disorders and for rehabilitation of people who were affected by Chernobyl accident. Mud treatment is performed all-year-round and patients can bring their whole families to spend their vacations.

Another miracle of the nature in Crimea is represented by mud volcanoes. They are far more rare than magma volcanoes and their geography is limited. For instance, in Ukriane, the only place where such volcanoes are found is Crimea. There are about 50 such volcanoes there. However, this number includes both the active and extinct volcanoes. One of the best known volcanoes – Jau-Tepe – is located at the south-west of Kerch, near Vulcanovka village. This is the biggest mud volcano in Crimea. It towers above the plain at the altitude of 60 meters and its diameter at the bottom exceeds 500 meters. In Tartar language, Jau-Tepe means “enemy peak” or “enemy mountain”. This “tender” name was chosen for a reason: in 17th century eruption from Jau-Tepe destroyed a settlement at the flank of the hill.

Rest and treatment in Crimea are augmented by its healthy climate. Summer is not too hot here and winter is moderate. Such climate is good for bronchopulmonary and neurovascular patients, it improves nervous, cardiovascular and respiratory system operation, enhances metabolism and increases immunity of the organism.

Scientists proved that so-called climate therapy suppresses development of certain diseases (e.g. in case of respiratory compromise or hypoxia).

There are several types of climate therapy:

Air therapy – air treatment or air baths: it improves sleep, appetite and immunity. When patients take air baths, skin receptors are excited, functionality of the organism is enhanced and its resistance against bad influences of external factors;

Heliotherapy is the name for sunbathing. Reasonable dosage of sun rays helps improve metabolism, decrease sugar concentration in blood, increase hemoglobin and produce vitamin B. Heliotherapy stimulates human body, improves its adaptive and protective functions and produces bactericide action. Positive effect of sun rays on atherosclerosis patients, as well as patients suffering from heart disease, neurasthenia, vegetative-vascular trouble etc. has been proven. Certain methods of heliotherapy application in complex treatment of lungs and tuberculosis have been developed.

According to climatic factors, South Coast of Crimea is very much like the classical French Riviera and Cote d’Azur resorts. However, French resorts are not therapeutic, they are just recreational. With regard to therapeutic properties and level of development of sanatoriums network South Coast of Crimea has no analogs in the whole world.

Aromatherapy or treatment with essential oils is also quite popular in Crimea. Inhaling of essential oils has physiological effect on human body. It changes breathing tempo and heartbeat, intracranial pressure, it has beneficial effect on eyesight, psycho-emotional state and sexual activity of human beings. Aromatherapy is usually performed in special medical offices where patients breathe in air with natural concentration of essential oils made of sage, lavender, rose, bergamot, silver fir, coriander, anise, fennel, lemon, wormwood, etc. These oils are also used for massage, in the form of aromatic baths and applications.

Another Crimean method that has no analogs in the world is invigoration of children with the help of dolphins. These intellectual creatures help hopeless children patients get rid of serious diseases and become adequate members of the society. Statistics prove high efficiency of dolphin treatment. Close contact with these miraculous sea healers has beneficial effect on humans: it helps improve mood, relieve stressed nervous system or consequences of traumas. US scientists were pioneers in the field of using the dolphins as natural “doctors”.

Lately, such non-traditional forms of tourism and speleological, horse-riding, bicycle, mountain walking tourism, as well as hang-gliding, rock-climbing, yachting and diving are developing at high pace. Numerous cultural and architectural sites also attract tourists – there are roughly 12 thousand of such sites in Crimea. They reflect different historical ages, civilizations, religions and ethnic traditions. The most unique ones are represented by a complex of cave cities and monasteries, Genoese castles and sacred places of different confessions used as tourist sites. Also, there are 5 natural reserves of national importance in Crimea and 87 natural memorials. It is impossible to list all the local treasures.

Geographical location and climate

Crimean peninsula is located at the south of Ukraine. It is washed by the Black and Azov Seas connected with Kerch strait. Area of Crimea equals 26.1 thousand square kilometers.

At the north, the peninsula borders Kherson and Zaporizhya regions of Ukraine and at the east with Krasnodarsky region of Russian Federation. State border length in Crimea equals 821 km, including sea border – 292 km. Sympheropol is the Capital City of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

One of Crimean assets is its mild climate that is close to Mediterranean. Numerous days of sunshine, warm sea, humid air, unique mineral springs, all this attracts tourists from different countries of the world. They say Crimean climate is close to Cyprus climate.

Crimean peninsula has diverse landscapes: at the north, there are plains, while at the south there are Crimean Mountains covered with woods. Most of the resorts are located in coastal areas.

Population of Crimea is almost 2 million people. The Autonomous Republic includes 14 districts.

History of Crimea

In the 7th-6th centuries B.C., Greek cities-states Khersones (located in the modern site of Sevastopol ), Feodossia and Pantikapey-Bospor (modern Kerch) were built. They were involved actively in foreign trade. Bospor kingdom was the only large slave-owning state in the whole Northern part of Black Sea region.

Later on, Scythian state was established in Crimea . It existed until the 3rd century B.C. Then it was concurred and destroyed by Goths. Later on, new wave of conquerors came to the peninsula. Their descendants – Karaites – still live in Crimea.

Slavonic tribes began their participation in the history of the peninsula since the 9th century. In 988-989, Kyiv Prince Vladimir conquered Kherson (Korsun). Afterwards, the peninsula was dominated at different times by Polovtsy and Golden Horde. Crimea also remembers Genoese and Venetians. Early in the 15th century, Crimean Khanate was established. After the war between Russia and Turkey (1768-1774) it was annexed to Russian Empire.

In 1918, the peninsula was declared Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in Russian Federation. Since 1954, Crimea was Ukraine’s domain. Ukraine became independent in 1991.


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