It's not hyperbole, it's true. In addition, the Zoo ranks ninth among zoos in Europe and among the top twenty in the world. Its history began not so long ago, and the city is a little over a hundred years old, but the main development took place in the nineties of the last century. In the early seventies, a wonderful person, Rostislav Alexandrovich Shilo, began to lead it, and by what a completely ordinary provincial zoo has turned into, it will become clear how much he loves animals. For a very long time he sought to move the zoo from the city center to the outskirts, practically into the forest, premises for animals were built in the difficult nineties.→