Saky

Saky Lake is a giant natural laboratory where natural medicines are produced - healing mud.

In ancient times, the lake was a bay of the Black Sea. Table salt has been mined here for a long time. More than 5,000 years ago, gray and steel-gray silt with layers of salts began to accumulate at the bottom of the lake. They were covered by a layer of salt up to 3.5 meters thick. Black and dark gray silt formed on top of the salt. The top layer is healing mud. It began to be used for medical purposes in 1827, when the first mud clinic in the Russian Empire was founded in Saky.

At present, Lake Saky is divided into two parts by a dam. The western pool serves as a raw material base for a chemical plant, and the eastern one is used for mud treatment by Saky sanatoriums. Medicinal and cosmetic products are made on the basis of mud. The strong salinity of Lake Saky ensures a high density of water, creating the effect of the Dead Sea, where it is impossible to drown.

The park of the Saky resort was artificially created almost a century and a half ago in the middle of the bare steppe.

The resort park is located on the shores of the famous Saky Lake, at the bottom of which there is healing mud. It occupies an area of 50 hectares, has 80 species of trees and shrubs.

On the territory there is an old pumping station with "Krymska" mineral water. In the 1960s, a sculptural group of dinosaurs was installed over the pond next to the pump station.