Essentuki

Health centres, tourist centres

Among resorts of Caucasian Mineral Waters there is a town with an unusual name. An ancient legend narrates about the time when these places were deserted steppe. A young family stayed here for a night. A baby was very feeble: he was often ill, hardly walked and hair don’t almost grow on its delicate head. In the morning the mother saw that the son disappeared and rushed to search. She found him at the spring where the boy washed himself and drank cool tasty water. The baby cheered up, grew strongly and thick, shining hair began to grow on his head in some time. Since that time the legend narrates that people become to call this small river Essentuki, that means “living hair”.

Essentuki town is situated in the steppe valley of the Podkumok river. Principle medicinal remedies of the resort – over 20 springs of mineral water. Climate here is continental. Summer is warm with large number of hot and dry days. Average temperature of July +24.4?C, maximal temperature – up to +30?C. Average temperature of January is +4.6?C. Fogs are often at this time. Autumn is long, warm with cool nights. First frosts are registered in the middle of October. Spring is very short, already in April temperature rises rapidly, average relative humidity is 78 %. Number of clear days per a year is 112.

Resort zone and the famous springs of the city

In Essentuki there is no intricate rock, waterfall, of which its “neighbors” are proud. 2 extensive resort parks – Glavniy and Komsomolsky – side with the resort from the north and the south. Flower beds, shady alleys, fountains, decorative pergolas, after which careful citizens of Essentuki look, other forms of small architecture invite to have a rest. Here there are also routes of dosated walking.

Balneotherapeutic department, attached to which a therapeutic mud bath, three belnearies, an inhalatorium, a department of mechanotherapy, springs of mineral water work, is considered a heart of the resort. In each sanatorium there is a bath compartment on issue of therapeutic baths – coniferous, pearly, coniferous-pearly. Departments of electromud procedures, inhalatoria functionate. Institutions of balneotherapeutic department serve sick men with over 12,000 various procedures. Most part of the all-resort balneal institutions and drinking well-rooms are situated in the medical parks.

In the marshland, where the Kislusha brook flew, Cossaks discovered saltish and unpleasantly smelling springs, people didn’t drink water from them but horses came for watering right here. Cossaks told doctor P. P. Gaaz, who had came to Caucasian Mineral waters for studying of the springs, about it. He investigated the “horse” springs and described them but he didn’t attach large significance to them. Professor A. P. Nelubin, who investigated a valley of the Kislusha brook in detail, discovered these springs for the second time in 1823. In all Nelubin described 28 springs, partially his numeration has been kept to our time - № 4 and № 17.

Sights of the resort

Over a hundred year has passed since the time when first trees were planted here. Many of them have survived to our time. Great attention is given to accomplishment of the park. Original park ensembles of various sorts of trees, bushes and flowers. Summer light pergolas, fountains, grottoes, cascade stairs, wonderful flower beds make the park ensemble unusually beautiful and smart. A ground of roses, where hundreds bushes of various sorts of roses flower, fountains work, is especially popular. Well-groomed flower beds, shadowy alleys, decorative pergolas, fountains and other forms of small architecture invite to rest.

Main sight of the resort is a dacha-museum of the famous surgeon Razumovsky. Architecture of the city is also interesting. One of the most beautiful buildings is Upper mineral baths, made in classical forms of Russian Empire style. A mud bath, which is built of local stone and Kislovodsk dolomite, corresponds to high models of Roman classics.

These “ancient Roman therms” were built specially for a successor of the Russian throne in 1915. Tsanderovsky institute of therapeutic physical training for treating of sick men with diseases of musculoskeletal apparatus on special equipments and training apparatuses.

In the resort park there is a drinking gallery which is a historical and architectural monument. On the central alley there is a principal pavilion № 4. A lower alley of the central park is a way of health. Three times a day it revives: thousands people go to the springs. Separate well-rooms, from which only pergolas have survived, functionated in the central alley formerly.

In Essentuki one may visit the oldest construction of the resort – Drinking gallery of Spring 17, which was laid in 1848. Limestone and sandstone, of which it was built, was brought on oxen from Alikonovskoe gorge, and white travertine – from the open pits at the feet of Mashuk. In our time the gallery is tiled with grey and pale-yellow marble on the outside, the floor is covered with colored concrete.

Treatment at Essentuki resort

DIGESTIVE ORGANS DISEASES: chronic gastritis, gastroduodenitis, duodenal & gastric ulcers, chronic colitis & enterocolitis, hepatitis, chronic cholecystitis and cholangitis, dyskenesia of billary ducts and gallbladder, cholelithiasis, chronic pancreatitis, adhesive disease of abdominal cavity.

ENDOCRINOLOGY: diabetes, obesity.

UROLOGY: chronic pyelonephritis, cystitis, prostatitis, sterility of fixed genesis, chronic orchoepididemitis, men's sexual desorders, urolithiasis without stones which is required surgical treatment.

GYNECOLOGY; chronic inflamation of adnexa, chronic parometritis, peritocsal pekvis commissures, uncorrect position of the womb, ovarian disfunction, sterility.

PULMONOLOGY: chronic non-specific bromchitis, tracheitis and tracheobronchitis, chronic pneumonia, risidual features after acute pleurapneumonia and dry escudative pleurisy, bronchial asthma, chronic asthmotoidal bronchitis, pneumoconiosis, bronchoectatic disease.

DISORDERS OF THE EAR, NOSE, THROAT: chronic rhinitis,adenoiditis, sinusitis, pharingytis, tonsillitis, laryngitis, eustachitis, labyrinthitis, otitis, neuritis of auditory nerve.

DERMATOLOGY: red comedones, vulgar comedones, psoriasis, eczema, neurodermatitis, child atopic dermatitis,dermatitis, lupoid necrobiosis, erythematosis, scleroderma, acrodermatitis, hyperkeratosis, demodicosis, pruritus of the skin, candidiasis, ichtyasis, pyodermia, paronichiasis, seborrhea, pholiculitis, shin varicose ulcer, urticaria, mycosis, Dyuring's dermatosis, Darye diseases, anki-kiloid, keratodermia of palms and soles, nose red granulation, Syegren's syndrome.

NERVOUS DISEASES: spondilesis, neurological manifestations and syndromes of vertebral osteochondrosis, diseases of peripheral nervous system, diseases of central nervous system, consequences of neuroinfections, skull injury, acute violation of cerebral blood circulation, vascular diseases of nervous system, neurosis, psychosomatic diseases.