Sysoev Priamursky Zoo

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The Priamursky Zoo opened in October 2002 on 6.2 hectares (15 acres) of a picturesque hillside near Voronezh-2, close to the Amur River. Its spacious enclosures, blended naturally into the forest landscape, house some 60 species, about 170 animals in all, most of them native to the Russian Far East. None were caught in the wild for the zoo: it takes in animals that would not survive on their own, and often hand-rears orphaned cubs. The idea was born thirty years ago and came to life on the site of the former Liza Chaikina camp, after six Young Pioneer camps were handed over to the project.

Route author

Khabarovsk Municipal District Administration

Things to do

📸 Take photos
🐦🍞 Feed the birds
🌸🍃 Get some fresh air

Route points (11)

Monument to Vsevolod Sysoev in Khabarovsk District

Point on route “Sysoev Priamursky Zoo”

Point 4

Monument to Vsevolod Sysoev

🗿 Monument

Who Was Vsevolod Sysoev

Vsevolod Petrovich Sysoev (1911–2011) is a legend of Far Eastern regional studies: a geographer, writer, traveler, and collector of stories about his native land, the author of more than twenty books, and an honorary citizen of Khabarovsk. His life was filled with expeditions, field observations, and tireless work to preserve the memory of the Amur's nature and people. He knew the region and its inhabitants as intimately as the lines of his own books. For many years he kept company with the famous Amur dynasties of tiger catchers, the Cherepanovs and the Bogachevs, learning from their experience and preserving the precious oral traditions of their craft. He personally took part in capturing more than seventy tigers, in operations carried out strictly on government order and by traditional methods, with forked poles and ropes. He described the technique of this difficult and dangerous work many times in his writings, turning technical details into vivid pages about the relationship between people and the wild.