[The potential of using the underground mineral waters of the Moscow region in the organization of medical rehabilitation and medical tourism].

Moscow in modern borders is the largest metropolitan area in the country with a fairly high and unevenly distributed population density. This predetermines the need to address environmental regulation of urbanization in order to create the most comfortable living conditions for the population. Health care and the maintenance of health of all age groups are the leading role in the list of the most important tasks to ensure the social well-being of citizens. In the bowels of the Moscow region there are natural therapeutic resources: low-mineralized (M 3-5 g/l) sulfate sodium-magnesium-calcium drinking mineral water and chloride sodium bromine brine. The article presents the characteristics of the natural therapeutic resources of the Moscow region, the area of their therapeutic use, justified the possibility of wider use based on the available scientific data on the effect on the body of these waters and their analogues. All this provides an opportunity to achieve the main goal of medical resortology - the use of mineral water as a means of therapy, rehabilitation and prevention of most existing human diseases.