Baikal and its basin

Baikal and its swimming pool with their unique beauty and numerous mineral springs spa treatment is a potential base-Union importance and extensive development of intra-and international tourism. Spa is defined as the value of the Baikal region a mild climate, dry and clean air, an abundance of solar heat and little rainfall. All this, taken together, is very positive effects for the treatment of many diseases. In the basin of Lake Baikal and the surrounding areas of Buryatia registered about 300 mineral springs, of which approximately 1 / 3 subjected to chemical analysis, the rest are known only to locals and have not yet been investigated. On the mineral springs Baikal knew back in the second half of the XVIII century. So, in 1772 the famous explorer IG Georgi first described several mineral springs area. Among them were the details of Garginskom source (Barguzin Valley). Mineral springs area of ??temperature and chemical composition are classified into the following main types: thermal waters, gaziruyuschie nitrogen and methane, carbon dioxide thermal waters, carbonated cold water; radioactive cold water; glandular cold water, hydrogen sulfide cold and thermal waters. Among the waters belonging to one or another of these types are encountered water with a complex composition. For example, in hot nitric waters often contain hydrogen sulfide, sometimes they have an increased radioactivity of water with carbon sources in some cases have a high iron content, etc. In addition to these six basic types of mineral springs, discovered in the district, there are also various other sources which are not included in this classification. Dominated by sources with salinity 0,2-1 grams per liter.