Recreation on the bitter-salt lakes of the steppe Altai has become very popular in the field of health tourism. Currently, the most popular among tourists and, accordingly, the most developed in this regard are the bitter-salt lake.Bolshoe Yarovoeand lakesZavyalovskyandRomanovskydistricts.

Lake Bolshoye Yarovoye, on the banks of which the city of the same name is located, has been granted the status of a natural monument since 1978. Its healing power is known from the legends of the Scythian peoples: highly mineralized water, curative mud and generous steppe sun. The concentration of salts is so high that water pushes a person to the surface.

Here are the Regional Treatment and Rehabilitation Center "Lake Yarovoye", as well as the modern sanatorium "Khimik", using unique local healing resources in their work.

Medical profile of the Yarovoe medical and recreation center - diseases of the peripheral nervous system, osteochondrosis, cerebral palsy, consequences of brain injuries, joint diseases, infertility, skin diseases, etc.

Zavyalovskiy district is located in the eastern part of the Kulundinskaya plain. The nature of the Zavyalovsky district is unique. Here, on an area of about 220 thousand hectares, 330 lakes are located, since the 80s of the last century they have been mentioned in the World Encyclopedia of Resorts near Monaco and other famous resorts of the planet.

These places have a unique complex of health-improving factors:silt-sulphide salt mud; peloid freshwater mud; brine of the Salt Lake, bathing in which is similar to bathing in the Dead Sea in terms of its health-improving effect; gorgeous blue clay; unique medicinal table mineral water; generous steppe sun and healing air of the pine forest.

Today, the comfort created by nature here is complemented by the comfort that people create. Mud baths appeared on the territory of tourist centers. There are playgrounds, water parks, attractions; excursions, boat trips, fishing, horseback riding are organized for vacationers.

Due to their location, reserves of natural medicinal resources, these places are ideal for the construction of balneo-mud sanatoriums.

Photo: Nadezhda Ryakhovskaya, Valery Stepanyuk