A little about banya We have a house in a suburb. Today is Saturday and by the tradition of our family we make a banya this day. It's neither a sauna nor a Turkish bath. It's the Russian banya. It was built about thirty years ago. It made of bricks and finished of wood inside. The heart of the banya is a stove which made of bricks. The stove is heated by firewoods. By the end of the heating the temperature inside a steam room increases by approximately 100-110ºC. When we take a banya we throw the water on the heated stones laid down in the stove to make a vapour. And after that we use birch twigs to convect the air. And finally when you heated in steam room you can cool down under the cold shower or with snow in winter. They consider that these procedures are very good for health. I also believe so.