Warning! Urgent announcement!According to the Order of the Authority on questions of culture and protection of cultural heritage of the Mykolaiv city council № 119 from 21.12.2020 "About measures for prevention of distribution of an acute respiratory disease COVID-19 caused by a coronavirus of SARS-CoV-2" from 8 till 25 January…
29/12/2020
During the Pre-New Year's holidays, Santa Claus and his assistants brought sweet presents to the birthday animals living in Mykolaiv Zoo.
The great apes Ramina and Aliti, chimpanzee (Lat. Pan troglodytes), living at Mykolaiv Zoo celebrate their birthday.
December 24, 2020 is Ramina's birthday, she is 8 years old. And…
27/12/2020
Mykola Pavlovych Leontovych, the mayor of Mykolaiv in 1909-1917, the founder of Mykolaiv Zoo, was born on December 20, 1876 in Yelisavetgrad (now Kropyvnytskyi).
Mykola Pavlovych studied at the Imperial School of Law in St. Petersburg and Odessa. From 1901 he lived in Mykolaiv. Since 1906 - the deputy mayor,…
20/12/2020
Mykola Oleksiyovych Troyanov (1921-2016) was born on December 16, 1921. He was a theatrical actor and director, playwright, and publicist. From 1960 to 1974 he was an actor of Mykolaiv theater named after V.P. Chkalov. In 1963 he created the People's Drama Theater in Mykolaiv, where more than 100 plays…
17/12/2020
December 14 – World Monkey Day.
World Monkey Day came as a joke among students at the University of Michigan. One of the students marked December 14 as Monkey Day on the holiday calendar. It happened in 2000. Then the humorous prank ended with a humorous holiday celebrated by students.…
14/12/2020
And again we celebrate birthday of the polar bear (Lat. Ursus maritimus). Today, December 8, 2020 is Smetanka's birthday, she is 3 years old. Her parents' names are Nanuk and Zefirka. Smetanka's birth in our zoo is the biggest sensation, the event is extremely important and bright, after all polar…
09/12/2020
Happy birthday, Urman!
In the family of Amur leopards (lat. Panthera pardus orientalis) Rayo and Eva, on the International Jaguar Day on November 29, 2019, a son Urman was born. Today our birthday boy Urman celebrates his first birthday. By nature he is an active and playful boy. Urman still…
29/11/2020
November 29 is International Jaguar Day. This holiday was founded in 2018.
The purpose of the holiday is to draw attention to the vulnerable natural state of this predator, the largest predator in South America.
Jaguars (Latin: Panthera onca) are truly strange animals that have many unique features that are…
29/11/2020
November 28 is a memorable day in the history of Mykolaiv Zoo. It was on this day 42 years ago that the hippopotamus (Latin Hippopotamus amphíbius) first appeared in our collection. In 1978, at the age of eleven months, a hippopotamus named Kazimir came to our zoo from the Kharkiv…
28/11/2020
