Abalakh is a thermokarst salt lake in the balneological resort area in the Megino-Kangalassky ulus of Yakutia , 100 km east of Yakutsk . Closed [2] .
| Lake | |
| Abalah | |
|---|---|
| Morphometry | |
| Absolute height | 159 m |
| Hydrology | |
| Type of mineralization | salty |
| Location | |
| A country |
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| The subject of the Russian Federation | Yakutia |
| Area | Megino-Kangalassky ulus |
| Identifiers | |
| HWR : | |
The average temperature in January is −43 ° C, in July 19 ° C. About 200 mm of precipitation falls annually, mainly in the summer. The main natural healing factors of the lake are sulphide silt mud and chloride - bicarbonate sodium brine . Height above sea level - 159 m [3] .
Until the mid-1950s, a sanatorium operated on Lake Abalah. A mud clinic was later built. It used mud applications and brine baths to treat diseases of the musculoskeletal system , nervous system and gynecological diseases. In 1974, the hospital was moved to the village of Nizhny Bestyakh , and then transformed into a hospital.
Notes
- ↑ Surface Water Resources of the USSR: Hydrological Understanding. T. 17. Lensko-Indigirsky district. Vol. 2. Middle Lena / ed. I.V. Osipova. - L .: Gidrometeoizdat, 1965 .-- 164 p.
- ↑ Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (brief geographic dictionary) / Ed. Editor Doctor of Geographical Sciences, Professor I. A. Nekrasov. - Yakutsk: Yakut book publishing house, 1980. - S. 23.
- ↑ Map sheet P-52-XXIII, XXIV . Scale: 1: 200 000. Indicate the date of issue / condition of the area .
Sources
- Encyclopedia "Geography of Russia"
- RESORT LESSONS No. 2 (23) 2004 . web.archive.org . Date of treatment April 30, 2019.