In the early 20th century, natural healing methods became popular in Russia: mud, water, and electricity. This trend reached Yekaterinodar as well. In 1898, doctors S.G. Mikhalev and V.M. Platonov opened the first hydrotherapy clinic in the city at 47 Krasnaya Street, offering electro-light, coniferous, and narzan baths, a Charcot shower, and other procedures.

In 1915, another hydrotherapy clinic was opened on Rashpilevskaya Street, owned by Dr. L. Eynis, equipped with modern facilities: D'Arsonval current devices, inhalation equipment, and X-ray diagnostics.

In 1914, the charitable council of the Kuban community of nursing sisters, led by Sofia Iosifovna Babych, decided to raise funds for the creation of another hydrotherapy clinic. The project was assigned to architect I.K. Malgerb, but later revised by A.A. Kozlov.

On March 27, 1916, construction of a new hydrotherapy clinic building began on Zakuban Road (now 61 Zakharova Street). The work progressed quickly, and by August, plumbing and other communications were being installed. Six months later, on June 14, 1916, the water-electrotherapy clinic for wounded soldiers opened its doors. In December of the same year, it welcomed its first patients.

The institution is still operational today, continuing to treat all those in need. The building is protected by the state as a monument of 20th-century Kuban architecture.