Sanatorium (resort)

In Russia, Ukraine, and other former Soviet Union republics, the term sanatorium is generally used for a combination resort/recreational facility and a medical facility to provide short-term complex rest and medical services. It is similar to spa resorts but with medical services.

For other uses, see Sanatorium (disambiguation).
Palace of Princess Anastasia Gagarina — now the administrative centre of the sanatorium "Utyos", located in the seaside town of Utyos, in Crimea, Ukraine.

On the other hand, for most Eastern Europeans including Russians, Ukrainians, Czechs, and other national cultures, sanatorium mostly means a kind of hotel with health resort facilities and various available services (such as massage, pools, saunas, aromatherapy, oxygen therapy, etc.) not covered by medical insurance. It is mostly, without any double connotation, a spa resort where relatively healthy people can rest and recuperate during a regular job vacation. For example, Sanatorium Astória [1] and others located in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, or Geneva Sanatorium Hotel in Ukraine, serve this purpose.[2] Usually in this case a doctor's prescription is not required. However, a general practitioner is available and it is recommended guests check their health status at the beginning and end of their stay.

Sanatoriums first began to achieve prominence in the USSR in the early 1920s, with the introduction of the Labour Code of the RSFSR, which established basic recommendations and standards for workers in Russia (distinct labour codes of the Soviet republics would later be standardized in 1970).[3][4] This Labour Code guaranteed at least two weeks of leave per year for all workers,[5] recommending that it be spent at a sanatorium for health reasons. By 1990, sanatoriums in the USSR could hold up to 50,000 guests at once.[4] After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, many sanatoriums fell into disrepair, some becoming refugee camps, but a number of sanatoriums across the former republics still operate.[4]

Notes
  1. Sanatorium Astória
  2. Geneva Sanatorium Hotel, Truskavets, Ukraine
  3. Clark Brown, Emily (January 1973). "Fundamental Soviet Labor Legislation". ILR Review. 26 (2): 778–792. doi:10.1177/001979397302600203. JSTOR 2521681.
  4. "These Soviet-Era Spas Are Still Accepting Guests". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
  5. Principal current Soviet labor legislation: a compilation of documents. United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor. 1962. p. 20.
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