Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
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Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
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Essentuki, one of the five cities of the Caucasian Mineral Waters region in southern Russia, is internationally renowned for its Essentuki No. 4 and No. 17 mineral waters, which combine bicarbonate and chloride mineralisation and are among the most celebrated drinking waters in Russian thermal tradition. The Essentuki Sanatorium Rus continues the long sanatorium tradition of this resort city, offering thermal programmes including mineral baths, mud experiences, and hydrotherapy associated with well-being. The elegant nineteenth-century colonnades, pump rooms, and tree-lined promenades of Essentuki recall its golden age as a spa capital of the Russian Empire's southern frontier.
Insider tip — Essentuki is one of the five famous Kavkazskie Mineralnye Vody resort towns at the northern foot of the Greater Caucasus, where the No.4 and No.17 chloride-bicarbonate springs have been dispensed from elegant Tsarist-era pump rooms since the 1820s for digestive and metabolic disorders. The Sanatorium Rus complex continues the tradition of intensive balneological cure programmes combining internal mineral water therapy with external bathing, mud packs and physiotherapy. The resort's main promenade, the Kurortny Bulvar, is lined with lime trees and 19th-century villas, retaining an Imperial spa-town character unique in Russia. Spring is the optimal season when the mountain backdrop is snow-capped and the gardens are in bloom.
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