Mineral springs on the north-east of Caucasus and its role in the treatment of soldiers of the Russian army in XIX — beginning XX c

Abstract

The article is concerned to the history of formation of sanitary-treatment stations on the North Caucasus, in Chechnya (Goryachevodsky and Mikhailovsky mineral springs) till 1917 year. The basis of the article are archive documents, scientific papers of contemporaries and official documents. Goryachevodsky and Mikhailovsky mineral springs were more than 70 years the one the best recreative base of the Caucasian standing army including the caucasian cossack troop. The sanitary-treatment stations were of great importance during the active military actions with Hill people within the territory of Chechnya and Dagestan, during the Crimean War (1853—1856), The Russo-Turkish War of 1877—1878 and the First World War (1914—1918), when the amount of the wounded and ill soldiers increased.