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Slepykh V.V.

Pyatigorsk State Research Institute of Balneology — branch of the Federal Research and Clinical Center for Medical Rehabilitation and Balneology of the Federal Medical Biological Agency

Povolotskaya N.P.

Pyatigorsk State Research Institute of Balneology — branch of the Federal Research and Clinical Center for Medical Rehabilitation and Balneology of the Federal Medical Biological Agency

Reps K.G.

Pyatigorsk State Research Institute of Balneology — branch of the Federal Research and Clinical Center for Medical Rehabilitation and Balneology of the Federal Medical Biological Agency

Slepykh I.V.

Pyatigorsk State Research Institute of Balneology — branch of the Federal Research and Clinical Center for Medical Rehabilitation and Balneology of the Federal Medical Biological Agency

Ionizing role of tree plantations of health resort

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Slepykh V.V., Povolotskaya N.P., Reps K.G., Slepykh I.V.

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Journal: Problems of Balneology, Physiotherapy and Exercise Therapy. 2025;102(5): 28‑38

DOI: 10.17116/kurort202510205128

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IONIZING ROLE OF TREE PLANTATIONS OF HEALTH RESORT
IONIZING ROLE OF TREE PLANTATIONS OF HEALTH RESORT

To cite this article:

Slepykh VV, Povolotskaya NP, Reps KG, Slepykh IV. Ionizing role of tree plantations of health resort. Problems of Balneology, Physiotherapy and Exercise Therapy. 2025;102(5):28‑38. (In Russ.)
https://doi.org/10.17116/kurort202510205128

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Abstract:

The relevance of the study is due to the important therapeutic role of natural air ionization in the ground atmosphere of heath resorts, which many authors associate with the environment-forming role of forest. However, there are gaps in the investigations of the influence of phytoresources of different elements of tree and shrubbery vegetation on such an important physiological factor as ionization of oxygen molecules in the ground atmosphere under different meteorological and ecological conditions in health resorts and sanatorium-resort facilities.

OBJECTIVE

To study the aeroionization-forming functions of coniferous and deciduous tree plantations and possibilities of optimization of the therapeutic climate at the climatotherapeutic grounds of the sanatorium-resort facilities of the sanatorium-resort complex of the FMBA of Russia, general resort parks and terrain cures.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

The protocols of comprehensive route forest, microbioclimatic and ecological studies in coniferous and deciduous forest park plantations on the territories of SRC of the FMBA of Russia, general resort parks and terrain cures in different natural areas of Moscow and Ivanovo regions, Krasnodar and Stavropol territories for 2017—2024 were investigated. A total of 20 sample plots (SPs), on each of which standard sets of natural factors (indicators) of the therapeutic climate and landscape (air ionization, microclimate factors, finely dispersed aerosol in 9 channels of particle size from 0.2 to 5 μm in the ground atmosphere, elements and volume of phytoresources) were studied, were made. The methodological recommendations №13—21 of the FMBA of Russia for ranking the balneological potential of different indicators of the therapeutic climate were used. The obtained measurement results were statistically processed on the basis of Excel program.

RESULTS

We investigated taxational, environmental and microbioclimatic indicators on the mentioned SPs, according to which models of the dynamics of ion unipolarity coefficient (IUC) under the influence of air temperature (IUC=0.0206X+0.3953, where X — air temperature, °C); air humidity (IUC=−0.0003X2+0.0228X+0.6853, where X — relative humidity, %); illumination intensity (IUC=0.166ln(X)+0.6367, where X — illumination intensity, lux); volume of timber supply plantation (IUC=−0.0014X+1.2885, where X — timber supply plantation, m3/ha); level of finely dispersed aerosol of particle size >5 μm (IUC=0.2243X0, 4842, where X — finely dispersed aerosol, p-s/cm3) in the underplant area of green spaces were developed.

CONCLUSION

The obtained data provide a better understanding of the role of active oxygen in the process of atmospheric carbon deposition by tree vegetation, which is relevant in the presence of global climate change, as well as confirms the influence of timber supply on such an important physiological factor as the ionization of the ground atmosphere, which has important balneological significance. Issues of ecological potential of health resort areas of sanatorium-resort facilities of the Russian Federation require further study.

Keywords:

phytoresources of tree plantations
atmospheric aerosol
indicators of the therapeutic climate
natural air ionization
climatotherapy
sanatorium-resort facilities
sanatorium-resort complex of the FMBA of Russia

Authors:

Slepykh V.V.

Pyatigorsk State Research Institute of Balneology — branch of the Federal Research and Clinical Center for Medical Rehabilitation and Balneology of the Federal Medical Biological Agency

Povolotskaya N.P.

Pyatigorsk State Research Institute of Balneology — branch of the Federal Research and Clinical Center for Medical Rehabilitation and Balneology of the Federal Medical Biological Agency

Reps K.G.

Pyatigorsk State Research Institute of Balneology — branch of the Federal Research and Clinical Center for Medical Rehabilitation and Balneology of the Federal Medical Biological Agency

Slepykh I.V.

Pyatigorsk State Research Institute of Balneology — branch of the Federal Research and Clinical Center for Medical Rehabilitation and Balneology of the Federal Medical Biological Agency

Received:

06.06.2025

Accepted:

03.07.2025

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