Zone d'identification
Type of entity
Collectivité
Forme autorisée du nom
Moscow Zoo
forme(s) parallèle(s) du nom
- Moskovskii Zoologicheskii Park
- Moskovsky Zoopark
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Autre(s) forme(s) du nom
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates d’existence
1864-
Historique
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