This is a unique source of health — Lake Tambukan.
During the WWII, wounded soldiers liberated Pyatigorsk from the Nazis, applied on a bandage a layer of mud from this lake. Today, manufacturers of cosmetics are looking at the lake at their point of view: in Tambukan mud, they say, one can find youth and forget about the shortcomings of the skin.
Healing — if not invaluable — mud they compare to the famous Dead Sea mud. When a couple of years ago, the lake overflowed its banks and washed away the track "Caucasus" - the main road on the Russian south, no alarm sounded about a strip of asphalt, even federal one. Environmentalists were worried about the unique properties of the pond and mud at the bottom. As a result, the unusual lake saved itself: the best defense against poison of asphalt became supersalt water.
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What science says about Tambukan.
"Tambukan is a large basin that receives moisture from rain and snowmelt. The Sun evaporates excess water. The Lake is endorheic, and the skeletons of all micro-organisms that have ever lived in it, remain at the bottom," said Eugene Potapov, a candidate of geological and mineralogical Sciences. "Deposits of mud are formed in the same way as oil fields: they need organics — deposits of dead plants and animals. Layer of sulfide silt mud accumulates 700 years, it is estimated the age of the Lake.
The water in the Lake is a saturated salt solution with a salinity of 30 grams per liter. When Tambukan dried, salt content in the waters reached 360 grams per liter, it's even greater than in the famous Dead Sea.
What history says about Tambukan.
Tambukan had dried up many times for 700 years of its life. Then again filled with water — and again dried up. But it has always been salty, and it was into the hands of the inhabitants of the neighbouring villages. Salt is one of the main minerals at all times.
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