Kumis treatment in the steppe regions as a promising direction of tourist nature management

¹ Orenburg State University, 13, Prospect Pobedy, 460018, Orenburg, Russia
² The Institute of the Steppe of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 11, Pionerskaya str., 460000, Orenburg, Russia

^* Corresponding author: osugeo@yandex.ru

Abstract

Recently, much attention has been paid by scientists from different countries to the issues of tourist environmental management. The kumis therapy development, being a historically established direction of medical tourism, is promising in the steppe regions. When analyzing the history of the development of kumis therapy in the former USSR, it was revealed that after the collapse of the USSR, an organized network of kumis treatment centers ceased to exist. Original maps reflect historical aspects and modern geography of sanatorium with kumis treatment. Most of them are located in the forest-steppe and steppe zones. The paper considers the steppe region of Russia the Orenburg region promising for the development of kumis treatment in connection with a suitable dry steppe climate, the development of horse breeding and the possibilities of landscape therapy. The paper notes the appropriateness of the further development of kumis treatment and the modernization of kumis treatment centers in the Orenburg region.