JETI-OGHUZ SANATORIUM

a Soviet era treatment facility

By Kim Lau

At the foot of Jeti-Oghuz is the aging Soviet style sanatorium (health spa). Built in 1932, Boris Yeltsin & the first Kyrgyz President Askar Akaev had their first meetings; Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin decompresses here. The compound consists of a hostel, a small park, tea and meal houses, and the sanatorium itself. A good course will take 2 full days, and treatments to be prescribed by a doctor upon registration. A tour of the facilities reveal some interesting treatments performed by Physicist. This series took relative depths into the Eletro-Magneto treatment center, whereby Russian designed equipment functions since the 1970’s. Although the equipments look non-confirming by today’s standard, the basic principles of their functions in treatment are the same.

JETI-OGHUZ SANATORIUM FACADE : At the foot of Jeti-Oghuz is home to the aging Soviet Sanatorium. The building seemed a little tattered.

SANATORIUM RECEPTION HALL : An architecture that is unmistakably Soviet in style. On the right is the treatment menu.

The water treatment faciltiies are across from the main entrance. Inside, retirees waiting for their treatment while seated in front of a old-style lift.

At level 2 sees a corridor to all the bathrooms, and seated at the end of the corridor was the attendant physician.

Behind the doors are the bath tubs, connected by another corridor to facilitate physicians providing treatment.

The semi-heated sulphur pool, which astronaut Gagarin decompressed.

THE PHYSICIST : professional in skills and looks with the tall hat. She demonstrated Electromagnetic treatment, Ultra Violet (UV) treatment and Heat treatment. All these equipment were designed by Soviet engineers and they have lated since the 1970s.

NORNO & FANNY AFTER TREATMENT : Jorno & Fanny bicycled the high mountains for 3 weeks. Their fresh looks some days after the 2 full- day treatment at the sanatorium.