Things to do in Urals: Tyumen hot springs
enjoying Tyumen hot springs
For a long time we’ve been planning to go to the Tyumen region, remarkable for the deposits of oil, and also for our local “Urals Sea”- the hot springs of Tyumen. The road from Yekaterinburg to Tyumen takes a 5 hours fast car drive, so we decided to leave early in the Saturday morning. Spring came to our lands so we departed in a good mood.
So, what exactly is the hot springs, and how were they formed in Tyumen? As I’ve already mentioned, the Tyumen region is rich in oil. In the 70s of last century, geologists began to explore regions where oil could be extracted. They began to drill wells into the ground. But it turned out that out of some wells made by geologists very hot water run. The fact is that these wells were drilled in the regions, called geothermal areas where magma is located close enough to the surface and heats the overlying rocks. The ground waters circulate in pores and crevices of rocks and are heated. Going out to the surface ground waters form lakes of hot water with high content of mineral salts. Such steamy lakes could be often found in the Tyumen woods in the winters. The view is impressive.
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