Volgograd is one of the largest cities in Russia, with a million population. It is located a thousand kilometers southeast of Moscow, on the right bank of the Volga. The article will answer the question of whether there is a zoo in Volgograd.
Where to go with the child on the weekend?
Parents are always looking for an opportunity to diversify their child's leisure time and go with him to the playground, theater or entertainment center on weekends. And all the kids are happy to visit the menageries, where they get acquainted with wild animals, learn a lot about their lifestyle and habits.
Unfortunately, a real zoo in Volgograd has not yet been created. The question of its organization is not even on the agenda, since this is associated with certain difficulties: the city authorities must allocate a suitable place, it is necessary to find sponsors who are ready to pay for the construction of cages and aviaries, landscaping and landscaping, and the purchase of animals. But the most important thing is that there is no enthusiast ready to deal with this business. Therefore, the zoo in Volgograd is the dream of its inhabitants, who take their children to the nearest menagerie in Rostov-on-Don.
A rare joy
A joy for Volgograd residents is the arrival of the state mobile zoo "Safari" in their city. This menagerie on wheels has existed for more than 40 years, it is directly subordinate to the State Circus, its director is Hamlet Ashotovich Kasyan. From spring to late autumn, "Safari" tours those Russian cities that do not yet have stationary zoos, and it winters in the region of the Caucasian Mineralnye Vody: in Essentuki, Pyatigorsk or Kislovodsk. Since the winters here are very warm, which is comfortable for the animals.
The mobile zoo "Safari in Volgograd" is placed every time in a new place, it depends on the agreement with the administration. Visitors can see many wild animals - tigers, lions, cougars, lynxes, eagles, deer, monkeys, bears and others.
In the autumn of 2011, during a stay in Volgograd, lynx cubs were born. They were named Steve and Jobs in memory of the deceased founder of Apple. And in the summer of 2016, again in Volgograd, four lion cubs were born in a mobile zoo. It was a very happy event! The menagerie began to be jokingly called "maternity hospital on wheels".
Alternatives
Wishing to please the townspeople and attract visitors, many entertainment centers in Volgograd open their own mini menagerie:
- "Touching Zoo". Located on the 4th floor of the shopping and entertainment center "Diamant Zatsaritsynsky" at the address: st. Workers and Peasants, 48.
- "Contact Zoo" in the Parus CSO at the address: Veselylane, 10.
- Mini-zoo in Volgograd in the children's interactive complex Art Diplay on the street. Workers and Peasants, 9B.
- "Noah's Ark" is located on Dzerzhinsky Square, 1-B.
- There is also a small room with animals in the New Acropolis shopping center on 26 Mira Street.
- "Lukoshkino" at the address: st. Kurchatov, 3.
- In the shopping center "Komso Mall" on the street. Zemlyachki, 110B, the "Manual Zoo" has recently opened.
Volgograd thus has seven mini menageries.
Thirty kilometers from Volgograd in the city of Volzhsky, they also created a mini-menagerie "Zoo baby on the palm" at the address: st. Aleksandrova, 18a.
