HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF THE ORIGINS OF HEALING RESORT IN SAMARA REGION
As a result of the historical archive aspects studying, specifically, the period of the 1870s-1910s, it was established that the intensive development of this medical industry in the Samara region occurred in the second half of the nineteenth - the beginning of the twentieth century. The first children's sanatoriums (school colonies) began in the summer of 1901, thanks to the local prominent doctors, initiative, for charitable funds of the Samara nobility and merchants, with an emphasis on the healing of groups of gymnasium students and students of real schools, from families with low social incomes. The summer programs for those children included good nutrition, sufficient outdoor physical activity, tourist and educational activities, monitoring of anthropometric, clinical and other indicators related to assessing the dynamics of the health status of the children. The project of summer children's colonies (school sanatoriums) successfully survived until the revolution. The general idea of the project was to help students, for the fastest and most lasting strengthening of their health, and as a result - expanding the possibility of their further social development, which remains relevant nowadays.