Mud lake. Mud lake in Golubitskaya
The Temryuk district of the Krasnodar Territory has its own attraction - there is an incredibly beautiful reservoir. Golubitskoe Lake is located next to the Central Beach and attracts tourists from all over the world.
The healing mud lake is located a few meters from the seashore. All tourists traveling around the world strive to visit here. Krasnodar region. The mud deposits of Lake Golubitskoe are well known and are used for medical purposes in hospitals and sanatoriums of Anapa and the Taman Peninsula.
Rest with benefit
Golubitskoye Lake is small: its length is 500 meters, width - 150 meters. In winter, the depth reaches only 1.5-1.8 meters, and in summer the waters evaporate, their level drops to 80 centimeters. The reservoir does not dry up completely only because it is connected to the Sea of Azov.
The composition of lake and sea water is similar, but in a smaller reservoir the liquid is more mineralized: in summer it is exponentially increased to 40 g/l due to constant evaporation, in winter it is reduced to 10 g/l due to its filling with melt water and rain.
Bottom mud is formed as a result of the oxidation and decomposition of dead microorganisms that entered the lake from Sea of Azov. The substance is rich in iodine, bromine, calcium. Its specific smell is due to its saturation with hydrogen sulfide. The mud of Lake Golubitskoe has healing properties, and while relaxing on the Azov coast, you can not only sunbathe and swim, but also improve your health.
Black mud is good for the skin and joints. It is enough to coat yourself with it for 10-15 minutes to notice the effect. No tourist will refuse the opportunity to make a mud mask on the whole body in order to try its healing properties, or to take a photo as a souvenir.
It is worth noting that black mud is not applied to the chest in the area of the heart.
You can wash off the creamy black mass from your body by plunging into sea water.
The greatest benefit comes from mud raised from the bottom in June and July. It is transported to sanatoriums in dry form.
Golubitskoye Lake is equipped for swimming. To walk along its surface, you can rent pedal boats to add physical activity to the mud therapy.
Address: Stanitsa GolubitskayaLocation on the map
What do you know about peloid therapy? Peloid therapy is the oldest method of therapy therapeutic mud what is popularly called mud therapy. This healing technique has been known since time immemorial and back in the 16th century. The Roman polymath writer Pliny wrote that on the Crimean land there is mud that can heal.
The Italians began to use mud as a method of treatment in the 16th century, and in Rus' they were able to discern mud only in the 18th century. Today mud therapy– a very popular method of therapy, and especially attracts tourists. In Russia there are more than 300 locations of healing mud, a considerable number of which prevail in Krasnodar region, or rather on the Taman Peninsula.
There are two types of medicinal mud on the Taman Peninsula: silt (mud lakes) and volcanic (mud volcanoes). The composition and beneficial properties of these muds differ. They say that the mud from the lakes is more beneficial.
Mud lakes
Solenoye, Golubitskoye, Markitanskoye– mud lakes, which the village of Taman is rich in. – located in the south of the Taman Peninsula, with the largest reserves of healing mud than in Golubitsky and Markitansky. - located near the village of Golubitskaya, on the Sea of Azov. The healing mud of this lake is located in the middle of the lake at the very bottom, and you can only get to it by diving headlong into the very center of the lake. Markitanskoye Lake - located in the eastern part, 5 km from Taman, the reserves of this lake are not large, but very useful. All three lakes are dominated by huge amounts of hydrogen sulfide, salts, bromine and iodine. Also on the Taman Peninsula you can count more than 30 mud volcanoes.
salt lake
Mud volcanoes
Tizdar, Hephaestus, Akhtanizovsky, Shugo– mud volcanoes, of which there are also many on the peninsula. is located on the territory of the “Island of Health” complex in the village of Za Rodinu. Entrance to the complex is paid.
Tizdar volcano
Akhtanizovskaya Sopka is located in the village of Akhtanizovskaya. Free admission. The area is not equipped.
Situated on Rotten Mountain near Temryuk. Visiting is free, but using the shower is charged.
crater on Rotten Mountain
Located next to the village of Varenikovskaya. This is one of largest volcanoes in Kuban. There is a fee to visit.
Visiting some muds is paid, others are free. You can read more about this by following the links in the article that interest you.
Indications for mud therapy
Diseases of the digestive system, metabolic diseases, diseases of the female and male reproductive system, diseases of the musculoskeletal system, diseases of the nervous system, vascular diseases and others...
Contraindications for mud therapy
Neoplasms, including benign (fibroids, mastopathy), blood diseases, bleeding, immunodeficiency syndromes, diseases of the cardiovascular system, epilepsy, severe general atherosclerosis, varicose veins, pregnancy and others...
Mud volcanoes, lakes and other attractions of the Taman Peninsula
Taman Peninsula– not only a healing place, but also a great place family vacation. Here you will find a lot of exciting, interesting and entertaining things for yourself. If you are planning a vacation in the village of Taman, be sure to visit the mud lakes, but remember the contraindications to this method of treatment.
How to get to Taman by car.
For those traveling from Moscow, we advise you to use a detour route: Along the M4 highway in the Kislyakovskaya area, turn onto the secondary road to the right. The road is of decent quality and there are significantly fewer cars. Thus, your route will look like this: Kislyakovskaya - Leningradskaya - Kanevskaya (it’s better to take the bypass road) - Timashevsk - Staronizhesteblievskaya - Poltavskaya - Slavyansk-on-Kuban - Anastasievskaya (bypass) - Temryuk, then to your destination.
Detour route: Moscow – Taman (marked with a red line)
The distance from Moscow to Taman is 1556 km.
If you decide to vacation in Anapa, Vityazevo or other nearby resort areas. You can easily get to the Taman Peninsula as part of an excursion or by your own car.
The distance from Anapa to Taman is 80 km.
From Moscow
By car. Along the M4 highway. Distance 1460 km. Travel time – 17.00 hours.
By plane. From Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo airports on flights Moscow - Anapa. Then by bus to Temryuk, and from Temryuk to Golubitskaya or by taxi (55 km). Travel time 0.50-1.20 hours.
By long-distance train. From the Kursky and Kazansky train stations by train "Moscow - Novorossiysk" to the station "Tonnelnaya" or by train "Moscow - Anapa" to Anapa. Travel time is from 22.00 to 28.00 hours. Next - by taxi (from Tonnelnaya - 90 km, from Anapa - 55). Travel time – 0.50-2.00 hours.
From Temryuk
By car. Distance 12 km. Travel time – 0.15 hours.
By bus. Regular buses No. 105 and minibuses No. 105A every 10-20 minutes. Travel time – 1.10-1.30 hours.
Walk along Golubitskaya
You can start your walk around the village near the famous for its healing mud Golubitsky mud lake, which is located right behind the large central beach. The dimensions of the lake are 150 by 100 m. And it is separated from the sea by just over 50 m. Black viscous medicinal silt is located under water, in the center of the lake. But this reservoir is shallow - up to 1.5 m, so it is convenient for both adults and children. Mud with a high content of bromine, iodine and hydrogen sulfide is used to treat diseases of the joints, skin, radiculitis, pyelonephritis and some other diseases. You can swim in the lake, or you can take air baths nearby by making mud applications.
Golubitskoe mud lake
If you walk from the lake towards the Central Beach, you will come to crocodile farm. It is located between Kurortnaya and Sovetskaya streets. Here you can see alligators, caimans, pythons, turtles and lizards, or watch crocodiles being fed. A ticket for an adult costs 600 rubles, a child ticket costs 500 rubles.
Crocodile farm
Opposite the central beach in the sea, not far from the shore, a dark-colored island is visible. Its height is about 2 m, its length is up to 100 m. This is the famous Golubitsky mud volcano . It is active and erupts every 6-8 years. Last eruption was in velvet season– in September 2011. The sea suddenly began to boil and began to throw up dark streams of mud. The volcano's emissions were very strong - they reached 50 m and lasted about 40 minutes. Before this, the volcano “awakened” in the summer of 2008.
Golubitsky mud volcano
Observations of the volcano and recording of its activity have been carried out since the time of Catherine II. The first time the eruption was filmed was in 1994.
A further walk around the village continues to the local Exotic park. To get there you need to walk about 2 km along Kurortnaya Street. This tourist attraction Children will really like it. The exotic park contains rare animals from all over the world - flying foxes, snakes of different sizes and colors, crocodiles, turtles and lizards. For children there is a “contact zone” where you can hold a rabbit, pet a lamb or chickens. In the evenings, an extreme show is held in the park - a dance of a trainer with crocodiles and a cobra.
Exotic Park
The exotic park is open from 10.00 to 22.00. A ticket for an adult costs 350 rubles, for children – 250 rubles. Children under 3 years old can enter the park for free. Photography and video shooting of animals is also free. You need to pay extra if you want to feed the animals.
Near the Exotic Park is Golubitsky dolphinarium(Kurortny Boulevard, 3). Bottlenose dolphins, fur seals and a sea lion take part in its performances. They are trained to perform many funny tricks - “singing”, “dancing” and performing acrobatic acts.
Dolphinarium "Nemo"
The Dolphinarium is open daily from 12.00 to 16.00, except Mondays. The ticket costs 500 rubles. And children under 5 years old can enter the show for free.
Near the dolphinarium, you can finish your walk through the village of Golubinskaya. But if your vacation in Golubinskaya falls in the middle of summer - July or August, it’s still worth visiting the picturesque lotus valley. Organized excursions are taken to it from the village on comfortable fast small boats. The place where these amazingly beautiful flowers grow is located in the floodplains of the Akhtanizovsky estuary. A walk to the Lotus Valley is a great opportunity to drive with the breeze through the expanses of the estuary and enjoy the view of beautiful exotic flowers.
Lotus Valley
There is a strange place on the Azov Sea - Tizdar, quite a spa resort with healing mud under open air. He is known to many in the Krasnodar region and, as it turns out, beyond its borders. People come here to improve their health, have fun and diversify their impressions of a holiday at sea. A great mood on Tizdar is guaranteed for everyone.
Once, while relaxing in a sanatorium in Anapa, I took mud baths. I really liked the procedures, the effect was noticeable - I felt very comfortable after them, as if I had been recharged with energy. The sanatorium's advertising brochures indicated that mud treats many diseases, cleanses the skin, and is very effective in cosmetology. Our roommate, a professional cosmetologist, confirmed the value of mud baths and said that doctors take mud from the Tizdar volcano. She herself uses this healing mud in her work - it contains a lot of hydrogen sulfide, bromine, and iodine. She advised me to go straight there: only 50 km from Anapa. She promised that the mood after the trip would be excellent.
There are various ways to get to Tizdar. In Anapa, all excursion bureaus offer organized trip on Tizdar. But you can go on your own, especially since now comfortable hotels have been built in settlements near Tizdar where you can stay for several days.
Here, for example, luxury 4* boarding house "Tizdar" where you can relax in comfort.
Therefore, upon arriving at Anapa airport or arriving by train at the city’s railway station, take a bus to the Anapa bus station. From there by regular bus- to Temryuk. There is a bus from the Temryuk bus station to the village of Za Rodinu. minibus. If you get there from Krasnodar, you need to turn in the direction of Temryuk. From there, go past the village of Golubitskaya to Peresyp. Then to the village of For the Motherland. Along the federal highway there are signs for all of these settlements. The route to Tizdar has become very popular recently, so it is easy to navigate on the road.
We left early in the morning by car from Anapa towards Temryuk. In summer, the endless expanses of the Kuban open up to your eyes: on one side there are sunflower fields, on the other - wheat fields. Lots of vineyards.
Along the road there are several small markets selling Kuban vegetables, fruits and berries. There are especially many delicious cherries, strawberries and grapes in these places during the season. Lakes appear on the left, where fishermen's boats can be seen in the reed thickets. These places are known to all fish lovers. Our goal was to look at the Temryuk city market. We are all fish and crayfish lovers. And here they are the cheapest, largest and always fresh. We bought crayfish - after Tizdar, in a coastal cafe they asked us to boil them. We ate to our heart's content..
We pass by the village of Golubitskaya, where the crocodile farm is located.
We are approaching Peresyp, there is only 1 km left to the village of Za Rodinu, where the volcano is located. Entrance fee to the village and, accordingly, to the volcano is 400 rubles. This includes using the mud lake, showering, visiting the zoo, playgrounds, and swimming in the sea.
The first steps towards the volcano - and the mood rises sharply.
A huge, almost monotonous, moving mess. Merging with the gray-blue mud, human bodies move. Everyone points their fingers at each other and bursts into loud laughter. But we also went for health. We change clothes: we were warned to take old swimsuits with us and definitely not light ones, because... dirt affects the fabric.
Slowly up the steps and we enter the slurry. You can't feel the bottom. They say that science does not know how deep it is here. Feeling of weightlessness. You can fool around, lie down, as is customary at the sea or river. Your mood improves, and it doesn’t matter in what form you appear to others. The mud leveled everyone: young and old, women and men.
Tizdar appeared in Taman a hundred years ago, after a volcanic eruption. A healing mud lake with a diameter of 25 meters arose in the crater. No depth data available. But scientists have determined that healing mud is renewed every day.
After the mud baths, everyone takes a shower and, laughing, shares their impressions of being in the unusual lake. In the cafe we drank tea from local herbs.
Then we went for a dip in the Azov Sea, the beach is just 300 meters from the volcano. The beach is very comfortable: it consists of fine sand and shell rock. Along the coast there are houses where vacationers stay for several days.
It's good here, calm. You can have a good rest with children.
Cafe where you can have lunch
If you get tired of relaxing by the sea, you can go to an ostrich farm, taste Taman wine at a winery, in specialized halls, and visit a cognac factory in Temryuk.
There is even a crocodile farm in the village of Golubitskaya. Fishing enthusiasts go to floodplains and lakes. These places are famous for their big catch. Here you can find ram, pike, pike perch, and crucian carp. Early in the morning, fresh, dried and smoked fish can be bought at the village markets. A very large selection of fresh and cheapest fish in the region in Temryuk itself.
It turned out that Tizdar is not the only volcano on Taman. Not far from Peresyp there are volcanoes: Karabetova Mountain, Rotten Mountain, Mount Miska. There are also therapeutic mud baths here.
We returned from Tizdar in high spirits, rested, cleansed of our own dirt, and recharged with energy. Along the way we bought fish, vegetables and fruits. And, of course, everyone carried with them a bag of healing gray-blue mud from the Tizdar volcano.
The Dolzhanskoe mud lake stretches along the Taganrog Bay in a huge gray-black isosceles triangle. The shores of the mud lake are low and flat and are very convenient for swimming. The length of the isosceles sides is 700 meters, the length of the third side is 600 meters. It belongs to the so-called dam lakes and in the past was an estuary. Currently, a narrow, low spit of land separates the reservoir from the Taganrog Bay and a dam (road) from the Sea of Azov.
Therapeutic mud (peloid) is a greasy silt that accumulates at the bottom of salty estuaries in the village of Dolzhanskaya. It consists of a mineral base (earth, sand, clay), overgrown and glued together with gelatinous organic substances. Dirt is formed as a result of the decomposition of living organisms without access to oxygen. Sulfur, which is part of proteins, cannot be completely oxidized and is released in the form of hydrogen sulfide. Therapeutic mud smells of hydrogen sulfide, but the concentration of this gas in it is low, so the complex smell of the peloid does not cause disgust.
During strong southern and south-western winds, the water in the sea rises greatly and the waters of the sea overflow into it. The lake has an oval shape, 2 km long and 700 meters wide. In hot weather, 96% of the water supply evaporates. In dry years the lake dries up completely. In spring, autumn and during precipitation, in summer it is usually filled with water. Groundwater brings sulfuric acid salts into the lake. The waters of the Taganrog Bay are chloride salts. Therapeutic mud occurs in deposits along the banks of the reservoir. Its reserves, despite the long-term mining period, are relatively large. In appearance, the mud is an oily, cream-like, plastic, black mass with a strong odor of hydrogen sulfide.
In its structure, the mud of Lake Dolzhanskoye is similar to the mud of lakes Saki, Mainak (Crimea), and Tambukan (Caucasian Mineral Waters) and is composed of mud solution - 63.84%, crystalline skeleton - 34.4%, and colloidal complex - 1.76 %. In the solid crystalline phase, mud consists of sulfates, carbonates and chlorides of sodium, calcium and magnesium. The colloidal complex consists mainly of colloidal hydrate of iron sulfide in the amount of 8.5 - 15.9 grams per kilogram of dry mud. This hydrate, as well as hydrates of aluminum oxide and iron, give it medicinal properties. According to mechanical analysis, dirt contains up to 74.1% of tiny particles with a diameter of less than 0.01 mm. All these indicators characterize it as high-quality, therapeutic. Mud is collected in the summer months for the whole year, delivered in containers, and stored in mud storage facilities under a layer of mineral water. Treatment is carried out using the method of applications (mud cakes) and compresses.
Indications for mud therapy
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system;
rheumatism (not earlier than 6-7 months after an acute attack);
chronic rheumatoid polyarthritis;
infectious and nonspecific polyarthritis; dystrophic (non-infectious) polyarthritis;
residual effects after joint injuries;
osteomyelitis;
diseases of the genitourinary system in men;
diseases of the female genital organs, including chronic inflammatory processes and infertility;
spastic constipation;
chronic hepatocholecystitis;
adhesive processes.
Many diseases and consequences of injuries of the peripheral nervous system, especially: radiculitis, plexitis, polyneuritis, neuritis - infectious, rheumatic, due to poisoning; consequences of polio in children.
Contraindications for mud therapy
Bleeding of any origin;
active tuberculosis of any organs and tissues;
tumors;
elevated temperature;
pregnancy of all stages;
extreme exhaustion of the body and loss of strength;
impaired cardiac compensation, angina pectoris, mitral stenosis, atrial fibrillation, severe atherosclerosis, etc.
The course of mud therapy is 7-10 days. Residents of the village of Dolzhanskaya and vacationers hold a local carnival in the summer - they smear themselves with mud from the lake and dance in circles through the streets. Everything - from small to large. As part of the carnival, a Congress of Witches and a presentation of Dolzhan traditional medicine are held.
