Moyyldy (health resort)

Once Pavlodar region was famous for a large number of sanatoriums and dispensaries. Some lakes of the Pavlodar region have long become places of pilgrimage for both local residents and visitors. Lakes Yamyshevskoye, Maraldy and Moyyldy are especially popular. The properties and composition of mud from the depths of Moyylda are not fully understood. The spectrum of their action is quite wide.

Once simple observations and conjectures of local residents in modern conditions were supplemented by scientific calculations and conclusions of research works.

The inhabitants of Pavlodar Irtysh have known about the healing properties of Lake Moyyldy with its unique mud since ancient times. Old men came here to treat joints that were twisted over the years of disease, women sought relief from infertility, men came for male strength, children were brought to get rid of annoying cough, rash and other ailments. The source of health and longevity has not lost its relevance today.

How the resort has been operating since 1922 . There is a sanatorium with 560 beds (360 in winter) for clients with diseases of the organs of motion and support, the nervous system, gynecological diseases. In summer, a department for 60 people works for teenagers. The resort has a balneotherapy center (20 mud couches and 20 baths), a pump room (a structure under a mineral spring). The resort is located in a park laid back in the 30-40s. XX century ^[2]

Until 1975, the resort worked seasonally, and now - all year round.

Moyyldy is connected with Pavlodar by road via the Pavlodar - Uspenka highway and bus number 66.

Natural healing factors

Pavlodar region is unique in the presence of zones that could become international resorts. Mud and brine from the salt lake of Moyyldy, left over from the time when the sea splashed in the region, can cure many serious ailments.

The main natural healing factors are silt mud and sulphate-chloride sodium-magnesium brine of the lake (its area is 0.5 km²). Mineralization of brine 250 g / l. Mud reserves of 150 thousand tons. Rapu, diluted with red water, is used for bathtubs. On the territory of Moyylda by drilling from a depth of 700 m sulphate-chloride sodium water with a salinity of 2.6 g / l is supplied suitable for drinking and treatment.

The healing mud of the salty lake of Moyyldy attracts thousands of fans every year. At the bottom of the mentioned Moyyldy Lake, the mud of which cures rheumatism and joint pain , the water temperature is 10-15 degrees higher than on the surface. Moreover, at the bottom of the lake there are also deposits of blue cosmetic clay. It is warm and does not require additional heating, and therefore effective, has a cosmetic and anti-aging effect. At the bottom of another nearby small body of water, black dirt can be collected. With its help, joint diseases are treated. And the density of salt water keeps the body on the surface.

Natural remedies tested by time and experience, such as brine and mud, cure a whole range of diseases: arthritis, polyarthritis, osteochondrosis and other diseases of bones, muscles and tendons; sciatica, neuritis; female and male diseases, leading to inflammation, infertility, impotence; gastrointestinal upset; indirectly skin diseases such as psoriasis, neurodermatitis, focal scleroderma; respiratory diseases; complications of diabetes and so on.

The local mineral water is used both for internal use in the treatment of diseases of the digestive system, metabolism, endocrine system, occupational poisoning with heavy metals, and for external balneotherapy in the form of baths, showers and irrigation. Chronic ischemic heart disease, angina pectoris, hypertensive diseases of I-II stages, residual phlebitis and other cardiovascular diseases lend themselves to a very pleasant effect of mineral water. As well as neuritis, radiculitis, arthritis, spondylosis, osteochondrosis and many other diseases of the nervous system, musculoskeletal system, skin, gynecological and urological ^[3] .

• Pavlodar. Pavlodar region. Encyclopedia, Pavlodar., 2003; Kazakhstan, AA., 1969 (Pavlodar Irtysh)