Minsk Zoo description and photos - Belarus: Minsk (Topic)

Minsk Zoo description and photos - Belarus: Minsk. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The Minsk Zoo was opened on August 9, 1984 and was first called the Zoo Botanical Garden of the Minsk Automobile Plant. It is located in the south-west of Minsk in the floodplain of the Svisloch River. The zoo was created on the initiative of Fyodor Idelevich Revzin, an enthusiast naturalist, writer, MAZ veteran, and was financed by the plant.

During the years of perestroika, difficult times fell on MAZ, the plant refused to finance the zoo. The whole country was worried about the fate of animals left without a livelihood. The zoo changed hands somewhat from hand to hand of various commercial firms. Only in 1997 it received government funding.

Now the zoo is developing intensively. A dolphinarium, a stone castle for lions, a monkey house is being built on its territory. Winter enclosures have been built for all animals. At the moment, more than 2.5 thousand animals live in the zoo, their number is constantly growing both due to the acquisition of new interesting species, and due to the birth of cubs. The zoo has a wide variety of departments: birds, vivarium, ungulates, predatory mammals, primates, reptiles.

Breeding animals in captivity is an excellent indicator of the zoo's well-being. A real `` baby boom '' has been observed in the Minsk Zoo lately. Visitors can see little bison, monkeys, tiger cubs, goats, lambs, chicks and other cubs.

Despite the difficult times experienced by the zoo, he was always engaged in the rescue of wild animals. The very first inhabitant, from which the zoo began, was the stork Zhurka, rescued from a puddle of fuel oil. Even Fairy Doom has its own touching story of salvation. It was uprooted during the redevelopment of the city and transported to the Zoo by its first director F.I. Revzin.

The modern territory of the zoo is landscaped. It is convenient for animals, adults and children alike. All the inhabitants of the zoo are clearly visible; they live in spacious cages and aviaries with a well-thought-out security system. The zoo has recreation areas, food points, toilets.

The zoo conducts many children's parties, excursions, educational interesting lectures. The zoo employees are doing a great deal of scientific and environmental work.

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