Ukrainian Resorts

UKRAINIAN RESORTS. The main resort wealth of Ukraine, which is widely used for therapeutic purposes, is its salt water bodies. Part of them are salt lagoon lakes (see) with salt-rich brine and medicinal mud (see Muds and Mud-Treatment Regions); typical of such "estuary" lakes are the lagoons of the Odessa group. Another type of salt water body in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic with large reserves of medicinal mud are the "bay" lakes, such as the Berdyansk and Nogai lakes, formed as a result of the separation of shallow sea bays from the sea. The third type of salt lakes are the Slavyansk (Repnoye, Slepnoye, and Veysovo) "sinkhole" lakes, which arose in our geological epoch as a result of sinkholes formed by the leaching of salt beds in deep horizons of the Permian system by subterranean waters. The fourth type of medicinal mud lakes in Ukraine are the soda-alkaline ("soda") lakes along the lower reaches of the Dnieper (Golopristanskoye, Aleshkinskoye, Konskoye, etc.), containing up to 47 g of sodium carbonate per 1 liter of brine. The mineral waters of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic are exclusively vadose. Most of the mineral springs have been identified only recently and are still awaiting development.

The following groups of mineral waters of therapeutic importance are most widespread in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic: 1) chloride-sodium waters (the most widespread), such as the Slavyansk spring, Artemovsky, Lugansky, Kuyalnitsky, Mirgorodsky; 2) iron waters, Shepetovsky and Berezovsky; 3) radioactive waters; among them, the Novograd-Volynsky waters are especially rich in emanation content (10⁸ emanations, Burkser); 5), 6), 7) hydrogen sulfide-containing chloride-sodium waters, carbon dioxide-alkaline waters, and sulfide waters, abundantly scattered in the Melitopol region (Tsarevodarovka, Georgievka, etc.); 8) sulfate waters, springs near the "Ostry" siding of the Stalino Railway, etc. The Black Sea and the Sea of Azov provide a whole series of excellent sandy beaches with gently sloping shallow shores, particularly suitable for children's resorts. Such are the Odessa beaches of Lustdorf, Luzanovka, Alexandrovka. The beaches of Ochakov, Yagorlytsky Bay (near the Dnieper estuary), Karkinit and Dzharylgach bays near Skadovsk; the beaches of Kirillovka, Berdyansk, and Mariupol on the Sea of Azov. The swimming season averages from early June to the end of September. Grape treatment using medicinal grape varieties is carried out at the southern seaside resorts (Odessa, Berdyansk). Over the past 2 years, kumys treatment has been organized in Odessa (Khadzhibey) and the organization of a kumys station in Skadovsk has been planned. According to the character of the Ukrainian resorts, they can be divided into the following groups: I. Climatic. a) Forest: 1) Kiev region: Pushcha-Voditsa, Darnitsa, Boyarka, Irpen, Vorzel, Nikolina-Pustyn, Bucha, Koncha-Zaspa, Mezhigorye, Plyuty, of which the last six possess, in addition to pine forest massifs, a river bank (Dnieper and Pripyat) and beaches; 2) Sosnovka, a tuberculosis resort on the Dnieper near Cherkassy; 3) Gadyach in the Poltava region for tuberculosis patients; 4) Sharovka, Repki, tuberculosis resorts near Kharkov; 5) Korostyshev (Kiev Oblast), a tuberculosis resort; 6) Pechary (Vinnitsa Oblast). b) Seaside with steppe-marine climate: 1) Odessa; 2) Skadovsk; 3) Kirillovka; 4) Berdyansk (see); 5) Samsonovka. II. Mud-cure: 1) Odessa estuaries, 2) Kirillovka and 3) Samsonovka (on the Sea of Azov), 4) Berdyansk, 5) Slavyansk, 6) Gopri, 7) Mirgorod (peat treatment). III. Balneological: 1) Mirgorod, 2) Kuyalnik, 3) Shepetovka, 4) Berezovsky mineral waters (near Kharkov) and a number of other health localities subject to development.