Gelendzhik

Gelendzhik, a resort and city on the Black Sea coast, 38 km southeast of Novorossiysk, on the shore of Gelendzhik Bay; on the northern tip of the bay, the so-called Thin Cape, is located the resort settlement Solntsedar. From Gelendzhik to Solntsedar along the bay by highway is approximately 7-9 km. To the north and northeast of Gelendzhik stretches a low spur of the Caucasian ridge - Markhot. Gelendzhik existed 6 centuries before the beginning of the Christian era in the form of the Greek colony of Torikos; the Russians occupied Gelendzhik in 1831. From 1900, the first sanatoriums appeared in it: two for adults and one for children suffering from bone tuberculosis. The development of Gelendzhik, Solntsedar, and their surroundings as resorts rapidly progressed under Soviet power. The Gelendzhik district was recognized as a resort of state importance, a number of sanatoriums were organized, and the center of resort life moved to Solntsedar. In 1921, a meteorological station was opened in Solntsedar. The climate of the Gelendzhik district is moderately warm, dry, with moderate winds. The average temperature of winter (December, January, February) is +4.9°C, spring (March, April, May) +12.0°C, summer (June, July, August) +23.1°C, autumn (September, October, November) +15.5°C. The north-east wind, common to the entire coast from Anapa to Tuapse, occurs in Gelendzhik on average 30 times a year, of which 17 are strong (more than 15 m per second). In 1924, Gelendzhik was transferred as a local resort to the administration of the North Caucasus Krai, and only the children's bone tuberculosis sanatorium in Solntsedar remained under the administration of the People's Commissariat of Health as a department of the North Caucasus State Clinical Tuberculosis Institute. -Indications for sending patients. 1. Year-round: bone tuberculosis in children and adults and pulmonary tuberculosis stage I. 2. For the summer: pulmonary tuberculosis stage II (compensated), tuberculosis of lymph glands, rickets (not younger than three years), convalescents, overworked (severely nervous patients do not all tolerate the north-east wind). Communication with Novorossiysk is by steamship and bus, across the bay by motor boats. The population in Gelendzhik is about 5,000, and summer visitors to the Gelendzhik district reach up to 10,000.