✨ Moscow Zoo

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Russia's oldest zoo, from 1864, on two sites linked by a pedestrian bridge over the street.

The zoo was opened by the Imperial Russian Acclimatisation Society on 31 January (12 February) 1864; one of the main initiators was Professor Anatoly Bogdanov.
The first elephant, Mavluk, was presented to the zoo by Alexander II in the second half of the 1860s.
In winter 1941 only one brown bear, Zoyka, was left on Zverinyi Island; she dug her own den.
The pedestrian bridge over Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street, linking the two sites, was built by 1997.
The zoo's symbol since 1987 has been the Pallas's cat, the manul.
In 2019 the giant pandas Ru Yi and Ding Ding arrived from China, and in 2023 they had Katyusha, the first giant panda born in Russia.

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