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      ✨ Leningrad Zoo

      Александровский парк, 1

      One of the country's oldest zoos, in Alexandrovsky Park: enclosures, pavilions, a playground.

      Leningrad Zoo
      © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
      Leningrad Zoo
      © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
      • The zoological garden opened on 1 (13) August 1865; its first owners were Sophie and Julius Gebhardt.
      • Alexander II gave the zoo a pair of Indian elephants, and officers of the corvette ‘Rynda’ gave it a polar bear.
      • The elephant Betty was killed in a raid on the night of 8–9 September 1941, while the hippopotamus Krasavitsa survived the siege.
      • In memory of the staff who saved the zoo during the siege, it stayed “Leningrad” even after the city was renamed.
      • Until 1952 it was called a zoological garden rather than a zoo.
      • The young zoologists' club at the zoo has been running since 1929.

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      • The zoo, cannons and the fortress
      • With a child: the zoo, cannons and the Aurora

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