Sviatohirsk
Svyatogorsk charming nature is admired by many Russian and Ukrainian writers, painters and composers who have visited here in due time.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov admired the extraordinary beauty of this corner, calling it "Donetsk Switzerland."
Seversky Donets, chalky mountains, chalky church in the holy mountains.
He wrote to his sister, Maria Pavlovna
"The place extraordinarily beautiful and original: a monastery on the banks of the Donets at the foot of a huge white rock, which, crowding, and hanging one above the other, piled gardens, century-old oaks and pines. It seems that the trees close to the cliff, and that what the force of their sticks up and down Pine literally hang in the air and that, and look, fall down ... Cuckoos and nightingales did not fall silent night or day is not. "
The great painter, Ilya Repin, born and raised on the Donets, left a lot of landscapes, glorifying expanse of ancient river.
Seversky Donets has long attracted people. Meadows, forests rich in game, the abundance of fish in the river, creating favorable conditions for the settlement of these places.
Numerous archaeological finds enable us to determine that the first inhabitants in the bend of the Seversky Donets appeared in the Stone Age.
Presumably in the middle of the XIII century on the right bank of the Donets was founded a monastery which served as a refuge for the monks, and shelter, in case of enemy attack.
On the countryside, where the city was first mentioned in Sviatohirsk scrapbook German diplomat S. Herberstein in 1526. Russian chronicles of the XVI century mention the role of the Holy Mountain, as a point guard on the southern outskirts of the Russian state.
The Russian Czars saw and appreciated the merits Svyatogorsk monastery. The state has attributed the monastery lands and lands.
In 1774. the property of the monastery was about 2,000 serfs, more than 27,000 acres of land. The monastery flourished.
At the end of the eighteenth century, during the reign of Catherine II, was held secularization of monastic and church lands in order to strengthen the political role of the nobility and material support. Among these monasteries, and was Svyatogorskaya abode. In 1787. all the property was described to him, and placed a guard. Monks expelled from the monastery, and property received by the treasury.
The wealth that belonged to the monastery, has long haunted the nobility. The first to put a hand against them, was Potemkin. Making trips to the Black Sea, Potemkin repeatedly visited Sviatogorsk. He took a fancy to this picturesque area, which by then was transferred to the treasury. There he saw a "blue sky south and Senno-leaved trees of Ukraine", and below them majestic Donets.
Potemkin, who considered himself the conqueror of the Crimea, using the right and the favorite minions of Catherine II, Empress asked to give him a Church of "dacha" and "grove."
Drove here serf masters, he is one of the chalky mountains, located on the right bank of the Seversky Donets, in the shortest time built a magnificent palace, and ordered to build on the shores of picturesque Lake bathhouse for its distinguished guests. These baths in those days were called baths. Hence the lake and the village has arisen on its shores, were called "Bath."
In Czarist times, the resort was very popular among the wealthy landowners and merchants. In the dense pine forests have been built and well-appointed luxury cottages, erected buildings with verandas for gaming and entertainment, the Count's park in the evening a brass band played.
In 1964 the village was renamed Bath Sviatohirsk.
The river Seversky Donets, chalky hills.
Currently Sviatohirsk is a popular resort, located on the territory of which the children's health centers, boarding houses, rest homes, sanatoriums.
Healing properties of climate change caused by an abundance of resort sunny days, high air ionization is almost complete absence of wind. Summer season here lasts for up to 120 days a year.
Chalk ridge of the mountains in the winter blocks the path of the cold winds blowing from the east of the Volga and northern Kazakhstan, and in summer the area obscured by dry winds. Even in the most sultry days when the temperature rises to 28-30 degrees, from the river blows cool light, and the man is easier to tolerate heat.
Pine wood fills the air salubrious aroma of pine needles, and in addition reduces the thermal difference between day and night. Thanks to a rest day and night may be in the open air.
The uniqueness of the natural healing factors, the combination of the cascade mountains of chalk, the Seversky Donets River and pine forests create optimal climatic conditions for the treatment of diseases such as:
- Diseases of the cardiovascular system,
- Functional disorders of the nervous system,
- Chronic nonspecific respiratory diseases,
- Iron-deficiency anemia,
- Co-morbidities.
Salubrious climate has indeed a beneficial effect on human health: improving metabolism, increasing resistance to colds, strengthens the body as a whole.
