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How to get to the Moscow zoo

Moscow zoo is one of the largest and most attractive zoos in Russia. To get to it is very simple: it is located in the heart of Moscow. Watch animals can all comers, for children there are special benefits.

You will need

- money to pay for the entrance tickets,
- a document confirming the privilege to visit.

Instruction

Decide what day and what time is best to visit the Moscow zoo for you. Remember that on Monday it's not working. In the summer it is open from 10 am to 20 PM, while the ticket office closes one hour before the closing of the zoo. The winter schedule of work: from 10 am to 18 PM. The difference is that in the winter light day is much shorter, so the animals soon begin to relax. Besides, in the dark to visit the zoo virtually meaningless: still fail to see anything.

The Moscow zoo is best accessed by metro. You need "Barrikadnaya" or "Krasnopresnenskaya" metro station. "Barricade" is on Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya branch (on the subway map it is indicated by the Magenta color). Station "Krasnopresnenskaya" is on the circle line (brown on the map).

If you arrived at the station "Barrikadnaya", then follow the signs to the metro station, take the exit to the street barricade. Make sure you are on the even side. Now follow the direction of increasing the numbering of houses. Soon you will reach a junction where you intersect the following streets: Barrikadnaya B. Gruzinskaya and Krasnaya Presnya. The entrance to the zoo is located right between the Grand Georgian and the red Presnya.

If you decide to go to the station "Krasnopresnenskaya", then find the zoo you will be even easier. Go out on the street Red Presnya, go to the even side and a little walk in the direction of decreasing numbering of the houses. You will find yourself at the intersection described in the previous paragraph.

For those who use Navigator, it will be useful to drive the address of the zoo, so it was easy to reach him, wherever you started your walk. Moscow zoo is located at: Moscow, B. Gruzinskaya, 1.

Note

The Moscow zoo is free for children up to 17 years inclusive, and all students, full-time tuition. Can not pay for the ticket form military personnel of conscription service, the disabled and pensioners, combatants. If your family three children under 16 years of age, you also have the right not to pay for a visit to the zoo.

Those who are eligible for free admission, you need to have a proof of benefit. Also from time to time, the zoo hosts promotions in which free access to it, everyone can. Photography can be produced freely, but for video you will have to pay.

Useful advice

The Moscow zoo was founded more than a century and a half ago on the territory of Presnensky ponds. First it was a small menagerie, but over time he improved, and today at the zoo are very rare and unusual animal species.