Slavyanka

SLAVYANKA, a mud health resort in the Ukrainian SSR, located 17 km from Slaviansk-Kurort station of the North-Donetsk Railway and 6 hours' ride from Kharkov at 48°51' N latitude and 55°16' E longitude at an altitude of 171 m above sea level. The city of S. lies in a wide valley on the left bank of the Torets River. In the resort area there are three therapeutic lakes: Slepnoye, Repnoye, and Veysovo. On the elevated bank of Repnoye Lake lie 12 hectares of an old park, which on the eastern side passes into a pine forest occupying 35 hectares. Opposite the old park is the so-called Gresserovskiy park of 7 hectares, around which sanatoriums, dachas, and other facilities are located. In the park itself are situated the mud treatment department, a bathhouse, the Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, an inhalatorium, a bathhouse, and a music stage; the main alley in the park leads to the lake. The valley is known to geologists as the Bakhmut-Slavyanskaya and is famous for its mineral wealth. The climate of S. is hot continental. The water of Repnoye Lake has a temperature of 19°C in May, 21.1°C in June, 25.1°C in July, and 25°C in August. The therapeutic means of S. are mud and water from the salt lakes. Therapeutic mud is a soft, black-velvet-colored plastic mass with a strong hydrogen sulfide odor. Slepnoye Lake has a length of 700 m, a width of 150 m, and a depth of ³/₄-1 m; the bottom is covered with a deep layer of silt. The concentration of the brine is 1.75° Bé, and the mineralization is 21.12. Veysovo Lake has a length of 350 m, a width of 240 m, and a mineralization of 14.56. Repnoye Lake has a length of 900 m, a width of 400 m, and a mineralization of 21.2. The chemical composition of Slavyanka muds (from Slepnoye Lake), according to Burker, is as follows. Specific gravity 1.23; content in 1 000 g of mud: water-690.70, solid substances-309.30. Water extracted from 1 000 g of mud contains: potassium and sodium..........

Phosphoric acid 1.2624 Manganese .... none

Silica . . . 1.6980 In 1 000 g of mud is contained: Free and bound

Hydrated oxide of

Sulfur, iron 1.1724 Hydrated oxide of

aluminum . . . 6.0414 For 1 000 g of dry mud there is free and bound hydrogen sulfide 1.46. Therapeutic mud is applied and administered in the form of general and local baths, poultices, tampons, etc. The resort has the following medical institutions: a mud treatment department with a capacity of up to 700 procedures per day; a bathhouse for brine baths with a hydrotherapy department and carbonic acid baths; bathing facilities on Repnoye Lake; a new Physio-Balneotherapy Institute with a sports town has been built; a new Traumatology and Orthopedics Institute for workers of the Donbass has been built. A polyclinic has been opened for outpatients, diet canteens, pensions, and hotels. On the resort there are 9 sanatoriums with a capacity of over 2 000 beds, and a children's sanatorium for bone and glandular tuberculosis has been opened. For S. the following diseases are indicated: Indications: J se Syr 1кс щие заболевания: 1. Diseases of the locomotor organs: a) chronic disorders of bones, joints, and muscles of traumatic, rheumatic, infectious, and intoxication character; b) post-typhoid spondylitis; c) spondyloarthritis of intoxication and infectious character. 2. Gynecological diseases: a) chronic inflammatory diseases and remnants of inflammatory processes of the internal female genital organs, peritoneum, and connective tissue; b) weakening of the menstrual function on the basis of disorders of internal secretion. 3. Chronic prostatitis, vesiculitis, funiculitis, epididymitis, orchitis. 4. Nervous diseases: a) diseases of the peripheral nervous system (neuralgias, neuritis, neuromyositis, polyneuritis, plexitis, radiculitis, paralysis and paresis of individual nerves); b) diseases of the central nervous system; c) meningitis and meningo-myelitis of rheumatic, traumatic, infectious, and intoxication character. 5. Diseases of the blood vessels: varicose veins, phlebitis, and thrombophlebitis. 6. Remnants of inflammatory processes in the abdominal cavity as consequences of infections (except tuberculosis) and injuries. 7) Diseases of metabolism: gout with changes in the bone-joint-muscular apparatus in the absence of changes on the part of the kidneys and heart, etc. The season in Slavyansk is year-round.