Leningrad Zoo
The Leningrad Zoo or Leningradskaya Zoopark (Template:Lang-ru), sometimes called the Saint Petersburg Zoo or Sankt-Peterburgskaya Zoopark (Template:Lang-ru), in Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), Russia, is located in Alexander Park on the Petrogradskaya Storona. It was founded by Sofia Gerhardt and Julius Gerhardt in 1865. It is the second largest zoo in Russia behind the Moscow Zoo and has 2000 animals from 410 species.
The zoo was renamed from "Zoological Garden" to "Leningrad Zoo" in 1952. In 1991 the name was retained, even after the city resumed its former name of Saint Petersburg.
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