# Kaliningrad Zoo

- **Country:** Russia
- **Coordinates:** 54.722222, 20.488333
- **Area:** 16.5 ha (40.8 acres)
- **Opened:** 1896
- **Location:** Kaliningrad, Russia
- **Zoo Name:** Kaliningrad Zoo
- **Date Opened:** 1896
- **Num Animals:** 2264
- **Num Species:** 315

The Kaliningrad Zoo (Russian: Калининградский зоопарк) was founded in 1896 as the Königsberger Tiergarten in the German town of Königsberg, which in 1945 became part of Russia and was renamed Kaliningrad. Thus, the zoo is one of the oldest zoological gardens in Russia, and one of the largest. Its collection, which extends over 16.5 ha, comprises 286 species with a total of 2130 individual animals (as of 31 December 2020).

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**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad_Zoo (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)