RUSSIAN BATH

Russian sauna - Russian bath can not be compared neither with Asian, nor with European one. In the bath there is a wood stove that heats the stones, that have a large coefficient of heat retention, and this way warm the room. After the stones are heated enough, they are poured  with water to produce steam.

Bather steaming is performed on the benches. As higher the bench is, as more hot is the steam. Required attribute of the Russian bath is the small broom (made of birch, oak, etc.), with which the bathers stroke their heated bodies.

- Temperature: up to 90 ° C.
- Humidity: high, up to 60%.
- Recommended time to stay: depending on the individual capabilities of the organism. Usually 2-3 sessions in 10-15 minutes, after      each a cooling and rest is necessary.

The Russian bath is a wooden steam room with wooden bench (seats) and woodburning stove, which is covered with special steam  stones with a large stone retention rate of heat (basalt, special aerated mixtures etc.) and suitable for flooding with water and creating large amounts of water vapor. Discharge of water is made with a suitable vessel, normally a wood bucket with plastic bottom. Near to russian bath, there must be proper cooling facilities as swimming pools, ice cabin or showers.

 

 Hotel DREAM - Bansko Ski Resort   Bulgaria

 

 

 

          

                                                             The sauna inside

 

 

                                                                                                    

After russian sauna, shock barrel with  10C cold water

 

 

 

 

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