Moose farm was organized with the Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve in 1949. The idea is not new to domesticate the moose. In different regions of Siberia were found cave paintings, where people herd of elk are on occasion used in sled to ride on horseback, kept in pens, etc. This suggests that the ancient inhabitants of these places losevodstvo practiced since the Stone Age. Losevodstva disappearance occurred in Siberia, most likely because of the displacement of his horse and reindeer, as well as the destruction of the tribes engaged in this activity.

By the 19th century the moose in many Russian regions of Russia completely disappeared and are of great rarity. For this reason, measures have been taken for the conservation and restoration of the number of species.

The initiator of the domestication of moose in the country was PA Manteuffel It is based on experiments on calves in the Moscow zoo concluded that domestication of moose possible. They were asked to move the moose breeding experiments into the wild, where it will be easier to bring healthy elk.

In 1934, the Committee on Reserves, it was decided to organize in reserves elk nursery. The Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve, such work was started only in the postwar years. In these places, in the north-taiga sparsely populated area the upper Pechora, where the road is as rare as natural meadows, breeding elk had broad prospects. Experimental herd in the early years was due to trapping of wild newborn calves and growing them at home. Experience shows that the easiest to tame elks at an early age. But adults do not tamed. Calves brought sometimes hundreds of kilometers away on ships, airplanes, horses, boats.

Only after being examined elk biology, have developed modes of feeding, training and maintenance of a moose in the home-based experimental herds, consisting of 14 elk, it was created lesoferma at Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve. Its main purpose was to introduce a specialized pet for taiga landscape zone, such as the Yak - to the highlands, reindeer - to the tundra, the camel - for desert.

After 11 years after the start of experiments with breeding elk, these animals have to meet performance requirements of the pet: Let not the taiga ran wild and returned regularly bred, used by people as productive and working animal.

Since 1960 started the moose farm breeding work to create domestic elk tribal groups: molochnoproduktivnogo, myasoproduktivnogo, working.

The great merit in the establishment of a farm owned by EP Knorre, who began experiments on the domestication of animals in the Buzuluk Reserve, VP Teplov, who put a lot of energy for the acquisition of experimental herds and other employees of the reserve.

Moose Farm employees gathered information made major adjustments to the scientific data on elk. Moose Farm failed to prove that only the domestication of moose is not completed his domestication. The person must create a comprehensive domestic elk, using rational and feeding regimes aimed education, developing the reflexes of subordination, other methods of animal husbandry for a long time. Despite the high fertility, vitality domesticated elk in the herd there was random destruction of animals from predators and because of poaching. It was the most formidable factor.

On the basis of moose farm Pechora-Ilych preserve their practice students from different universities of the country. Among them was also AM Mikhailov, a student of Kostroma Agricultural Institute, who successfully organized then elk farm at the Kostroma experimental station, where some of the animals brought from lesofermy Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve.

The results of the research on moose farm have been published in scientific journals, proceedings of the reserve. Many times a moose lesofermy Pechora-Ilych nature reserve member of the Exhibition Center, more than 50 moose were sent to various farms in Vol. H. In Yugoslavia, England, China, Czechoslovakia.

Now scientific experiments and research on moose farm is not available, but the educational and educational work is carried out. All year round on the farm you can see adults and children, both from our country and from other countries.