Grodno Zoo
Coordinates: 53°41′22″N 23°50′55″E / 53.6893260°N 23.8486280°E
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Logo dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Grodno zoo | |
| Date opened | 1927[1] |
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| Land area | 5.35 hectares[1] |
| Number of animals | 3 000[2] |
| Number of species | 317[2] |
| Memberships | EARAZA[1] |
| Website | http://www.grodnozoo.by |
Grodno Zoo, is a zoo, located in Grodno in Belarus.[1]
Grodno Zoo was founded in 1927, as the first zoo in Belarus on initiative of the high school teacher Jan Kochanowski. In 1926 Kochanowski, together with his pupils he established a botanical garden i the city park, which in 1927 received the first animals, and the new zoological department kept 17 species of local fauna. Nine years later, in 1936, Grodno zoo had about 400 exhibits,[1]
The second world war more or less destroyed the zoo, and not much was left in 1944, when Executive Committee of Grodno, in turn, on 12 December 1944, decided to restore the zoo in the city, and the zoo opened its gate again on September 28, 1946.[1]
The first Asian elephant arrived August 30, 1955 from Vietnam.[1]
Grodno Zoo became member in EARAZA in 2009.[1]
The destiny of Jan Kochanowski
The founder of Grodno Zoo, Jan Kochanowski Yuzefovich was born in 1894 in the city of Grodno. In 1942, for the murder of a German doctor, local patriots was arrested by the Gestapo as a hostage and imprisoned along with other representatives of the intelligentsia of Grodno. When the public of the city turned to the occupation authorities for the release of hostages, the Gestapo chief agreed not to shoot 100 and 25 persons. Among the victims was one Kochanowski teacher Jozef Vevyursky - the father of six children. The remaining hostages, including Jan Kochanowski, were to be set free, but Kochanowski appealed to the German officer to include him among those sentenced to death instead of Jozef Vevyurskogo, since he did not have a family. In the autumn 1942 Jan Kochanowski Yuzefovich was shot.[1]
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