Moscow Zoo - the first zoo in Russia was organized in 1864 by the Imperial Russian Society of acclimatization of animals and plants. Beginning its existence due to the wonderful names of Moscow University professor Charles Frantsevich Rul'e, Anatoly Petrovich Bogdanov and Sergei Alekseevich Usov.

By the opening of the zoo it was already about 80 species and 200 specimens of wild animals and more than 100 copies of the home. Best of all were represented Russian fauna: bears, wolves, foxes, badgers, weasels, martens, hares, squirrels, hedgehogs, deer, falcons, hawks, owls, owls, bustards, cranes, herons, ducks and others. Garden creators wanted to show the audience in the first place of our mother nature. Were on display and exotic creatures - lions, jaguars, rhinoceros, parrots, an alligator.

Now in the Moscow zoo contains more than eight thousand animals belonging to more than a thousand species of the world fauna. Zoo participates in many international programs for the conservation of endangered species, is working with conservation organizations around the world, included in the World and European Association of Zoos and Aquaria.