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