Goryachevodsk

GORYACHEVODSK (Lenin-kurort), a balneological resort (near the Goryacheistochninskaya station of the Chechen Autonomous Oblast) 14 km from the city of Grozny. It lies at an altitude of 212 m, on the northern slope of the Terek Range. The terrain is a plain, cut through by two ridges, the northern slopes of which are covered with forest. The climate is continental, dry; spring is early and warm; summer is hot and dry, with air temperatures rising to 40°, with no more than 8-10 cloudy days throughout the summer; autumn is sunny and dry, with occasional rain showers; winter is mild. The sources are sulfur-alkali-glauber, weakly mineralized thermal springs (dry residue 0.889). Temperature ranges from 77° (eastern group) to 88° (western group). The water from the sources forms ponds with temperatures ranging from 45° to 32°. One of the sources saturates sandy deposits with its water, the temperature of which is 40° and higher, depending on the depth. Sand baths are used by burying patients in the hot sand. There is a drinking source of the Borjoma type; water bottling is organized. The resort is quite well-equipped. There are bath and shower buildings with a capacity of 600 procedures per day. A polyclinic with a laboratory and physical therapy equipment, sanatoriums for 180 people. Attendance is constantly growing; in 1926 there were 2,750 patients. Indications are general for thermal resorts. The season is year-round, but in winter bathing in ponds and sand baths are excluded. Transportation by automobile or horse from Grozny station (14 km) or from Chervlenaya station (12 km) of the North Caucasus Railway.