Feodosiya

Feodosiya, a seaport and climatic health resort on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. Geographic features create in Feodosiya a combination of steppe and maritime climate. Meteorological data—see table on page 625. Total hours of sunshine 2,220. Relative humidity 65.1%. Feodosiya has a good sandy beach and shallow coastline. The resort value of Feodosiya, somewhat diminished during the revolutionary period, has now increased due to the opening of the Institute of Physical Therapy Methods with departments: balneological (sea, brine, and gas baths), hydrotherapeutic, mud therapy, electro-photo-heat therapy, mechanotherapy, X-ray department, solarium, beach, physical exercise area, laboratories, etc. Mud is delivered from the salt lake Ajigol, 10 km from Feodosiya. The institute has a sanatorium with 150 beds. Patients and vacationers are also accommodated in rest homes, dachas, and hotels of the local resort trust. Patients are sent to Feodosiya with anemia, malnutrition, catarrhs of the respiratory tract, fully compensated closed tuberculosis of the lungs and glands, gout, obesity, neurasthenic conditions, and mild forms of hysteria and psychasthenia, as well as other diseases requiring treatment with the marine climate and sea bathing in combination with physical therapy methods (including local mud therapy). Feodosiya is rich in many historical monuments. Feodosiya is connected by direct railway service with Moscow, Leningrad, and Kharkov and by steamship with all ports of the Black Sea.