Essentuki is a resort town in the Stavropol Territory. It forms the Essentuki urban district. Since 1992, it has been the administrative center of the specially protected ecological resort region Caucasian Mineral Waters (CMW) and the seat of its administration. Since 2006, it has been a resort of federal significance.
Essentuki is considered the largest and most popular drinking and balneotherapeutic resort in Russia for treatment of gastrointestinal, hepatic and metabolic diseases. The main healing remedies of the resort are more than 20 mineral springs. The city has vast spa parks - Lechebniy Park (lower park) and Victory Park (upper park). The parks host mineral water springs, many therapeutic institutions, and marked up Terrainkur routes. The basic therapeutic factors of Essentuki are salt-alkaline springs Essentuki-4, Essentuki-20, Essentuki-17, Essentuki-2 (New) and sulphur-alkaline spring Essentuki-1-Burovaya. The waters of the springs are used for drinking therapy, baths, irrigations and inhalations. Besides, the sulfide silt mud of Tambukan Lake is also used for therapeutic purposes (mud treatment).
The postage stamp provides an image of Upper Nikolayevsky Mineral Baths.
| Paper |
Printing method |
Perforation |
Format of the stamp |
Edition |
| Chalk surfaced |
Offset + security system |
Comb 11¾:12¼ |
58 × 26 mm |
56 thousand stamps |