Sooner or later, we all face the need to take a good rest and reboot: stress at work, professional burnout, cold season or illness. We decided to prepare a list of the best, in our opinion, health resorts in Russia, from which you can choose the appropriate option depending on your budget, location and wishes for treatment. By the way, all these sanatoriums also accept completely healthy visitors: to relax in them, you don’t have to have an impressive medical card.
“Rus” (Essentuki, Stavropol Territory)
“Rus” is one of the largest Russian sanatoriums, specializing in balneological treatment (mineral water therapy). This is a large-scale four-star complex spread over an area of 6.4 hectares: it includes two nine-story buildings with panoramic windows offering magnificent views of the surrounding nature, a spa complex and a huge swimming pool. There is also a salt cave, a tennis court, a health path, a gym and a diagnostic and treatment center.
The sanatorium-resort complex specializes in rehabilitation after COVID-19 or viral pneumonia, fractures and injuries, in the treatment of ENT organs and sinusitis. Visitors who have undergone treatment at the Rus sanatorium note the high level of service, excellent cuisine, variety of activities and excursions and excellent animation for children.
“Valley of Narzanov” (Kislovodsk, Stavropol Territory)
The Russian Railways sanatorium “Narzanov Valley” is located in the resort area of Kislovodsk, surrounded by dense forests at the foot of Mount Beshtau. Guests can visit the halo chamber, massage rooms, undergo procedures with mineral water and healing mud, and do therapeutic exercises. In your free time from procedures, you can relax in the sauna, play billiards, barbecue in the gazebo, visit the gym or go on one of the many excursions.
“Valley of Narzanov” specializes in the treatment of diseases of the nervous and genitourinary systems, as well as diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Dietary meals are provided. Also in 2020, the sanatorium specialists developed programs for the rehabilitation of patients who suffered viral pneumonia.
“Mashuk Aqua-Term” (Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Territory)
The spacious four-star sanatorium “Mashuk” is located in the center of the Caucasian Mineral Waters region, not far from the excellent spa park “Italian Baths” (for stays of more than a week, its visit is free). In addition to the sanatorium, in the protected area there is a park, a pine forest and a spring lake, as well as its own well of the healing Slavyanovsky spring and a repository of natural Tambukan mud. The sanatorium restaurant allows you to choose from 15 therapeutic diets, taking into account the preferences of each guest, including those for weight loss or adjusting blood cholesterol levels.
In “Mashuk Aqua-Therm” you can take advantage of several programs: basic balneological, detox and relaxation complexes. The main profile of the sanatorium is the treatment of the digestive system, urological and gynecological diseases, and the musculoskeletal system. There is also an anti-tobacco program to help you quit smoking.
“Lago-Naki” (Krasny Most village, Republic of Adygea)
The Lago-Naki health resort in Adygea is located on a peninsula, which is washed on three sides by the mountain river Kurdzhips, in the foothills of the Caucasian State Biosphere Reserve. She has been welcoming vacationers for four decades now, and the philosophy of the sanatorium is an integrated approach to treating the body, stabilizing all physical and biochemical processes. In addition to traditional European medicine, methods of folk (Chinese and Russian) approaches to treatment, bioenergy and psychotherapy are used here. The territory has its own source of drinking mineral water.
The main profile of “Lago-Naki” is diseases of the spine: hernias, protrusions, and degenerative diseases of this organ are treated here; There are also several preventative programs aimed at relieving back pain and fatigue. Other suggestions include rehabilitation after viral pneumonia, weight correction, increased performance and restoration of strength.
“Knowledge” (Adler, Krasnodar region)
This sanatorium is located on the first coastline of the Black Sea in the resort Adler, and its territory is literally buried in the greenery of a subtropical arboretum. The health resort itself has been operating since the 1970s, but ten years ago it was completely renovated and now looks quite modern. On the territory of “Znania” there are outdoor and indoor swimming pools, a private pump room with three types of mineral water (Sochi, Lazarevskaya and Plastunskaya), as well as a spa center offering a variety of body contouring programs.
The sanatorium’s specialists are ready to help people suffering from diseases of the nervous, cardiovascular and musculoskeletal systems. A variety of treatment methods are offered – from mud therapy and therapeutic massage to shock wave therapy, ozone and climatotherapy.
“Metallurg” (Sochi, Krasnodar region)
The three-star sanatorium “Metallurg” occupies a historical building from the 1950s, built in the classical Baroque style (it was reconstructed in 2013). The building is surrounded by a subtropical park with coniferous and evergreen plants. Without a doubt, this is one of the most beautiful operating sanatoriums in Sochi. The park, dining room and some rooms offer impressive views of the Black Sea. In summer, guests can relax on their own guarded beach, which is only half a kilometer away on foot.
“Metallurg” is a multidisciplinary medical institution, but its main specialization is the treatment of skin diseases, ailments of the cardiovascular and nervous systems, the musculoskeletal system, gynecological and urological problems. Methods of mud therapy, ozone therapy, radio wave surgery are used, there is also a hardware cosmetology room and a pump room with mineral waters, especially useful for problems with the gastrointestinal tract.
Elton Resort (Elton, Volgograd region)
The Elton sanatorium is located not far from a real natural miracle – the salt lake of the same name, lost in the endless steppes of the Volgograd region near the border with Kazakhstan. Almost always, mud from salt marshes has healing properties, and Elton’s mud is no exception: it helps improve blood circulation, normalize metabolism and metabolic processes in the body, as well as tissue regeneration. The sanatorium itself was founded on this site in 1904. Of course, in the warm season, its visitors can go all the way to the lake to swim. Elton Resort also operates as a hotel, welcoming travelers.
The sanatorium programs last from two weeks to 21 days. Patients with diseases of the skin, joints, peripheral and central nervous systems and respiratory organs receive the greatest benefit from salt water and therapeutic mud here.
“Altai Resort” (Urlu-Aspak village, Altai Republic)
The picturesque holiday complex at first glance resembles an Alpine chalet – wooden houses, mountain landscape and cedar forest around. Tourists can also stay here – a sauna with Himalayan salt, a bath complex, a jacuzzi, a swimming pool and a gym are always available to them. There are two restaurants on site – European and Oriental cuisine, and the chefs cook exclusively from environmentally friendly local products.
However, Altai Resort also has its own Health Center, offering several wellness programs. Among them are rehabilitation after COVID-19, programs for people suffering from problems with the respiratory tract, weakened immunity or joints, as well as detox and relaxation complexes. Patients can try floating, therapeutic baths and a shower chair, soak in cedar barrels, and also undergo the procedure of underwater horizontal spinal traction, recommended for vertebrogenic diseases of the nervous system and osteochondrosis.
“Revital Park” (Balashikha, Moscow region)
The Moscow region clinic-sanatorium “Revital Park” proves: in order to relax and improve your poor health, you don’t have to go to the resort regions of the country. Currently, this center occupies 6,000 m², and its specialists provide more than 50 types of wellness procedures. On the territory of the sanatorium there is a wellness club with a swimming pool and training areas that allow you to practice various sports.
Initially, the main focus of Revital Park was programs aimed at cleansing and rejuvenating the body, correcting weight and figure, treating metabolic disorders, as well as detox programs and therapeutic techniques to improve the condition of people suffering from diseases digestive and cardiovascular systems, musculoskeletal system. In addition to a set of procedures, massages and sports activities, an individual diet is developed for each guest.
