Monkey nursery located in the village of Merry Adler district of Sochi, a Research Institute of Medical Primatology .  The nursery was established in 1927 .  For all time of its existence here we made various studies relating to the study of higher nervous activity in areas such as infectious pathology, experimental oncology and other areas .  It is tested on monkeys, and then introduced into medical practice various methods of dealing with life-threatening human infectious and viral diseases (tetanus, diphtheria, cholera, gas gangrene), and measures to prevent them .  A number of studies of tick-borne typhus returnable, viral encephalitis, viral hepatitis, polio, measles, etc. .  The Institute is being tested new antibiotics for the treatment of many infectious diseases, and how to use them .  In the early 80s .  AIDS began to conduct research .  Director of the Institute is B .  A .  Lapin - Member of RAMS .

The scientific establishment has six large divisions: animal production laboratory, laboratories onkovirusologii and immunology, pathological anatomy, biological control, and infectious pathology, clinical department. Today the area of ​​the Adler Research Institute is 100 hectares. In small and large halls are more than 2 thousand. Asian and African species of monkeys, including different species of macaques, baboons, green monkeys, gamadrily and others.

The most interesting is that it is in a fun preflight monkeys are involved in space missions. This also return it, completing their space odyssey. Today the nursery living chimpanzees Dasha and Tisha, they flew into space in 1998. At the entrance to the nursery attention of visitors attracted by the layout of the spacecraft with a stuffed monkey, made a space flight of more than half a century ago.