Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Moscow Zoo
Parallel form(s) of name
- Moskovskii Zoologicheskii Park
- Moskovsky Zoopark
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1864-
History
The Moscow Zoo was founded in 1864 by professor-biologists, K F Rulje, S A Usov and A P Bogdanov, from the Moscow State University. In 1919 the zoo was nationalized. In 1922, the ownership was transferred to the Government of Moscow and has remained under Moscow's control ever since