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