nikolaev zoo

Perfect place to spend your time with family or with your partner. Cute animals, all is green, nice place to sit. Not expensive.

This zoo could do with an army of people to refurbish it! The amenities are poor quality and it could do with a good quality restaurant.

A lot of animals, also outside cages (called humans).The zoo itself is worth a visit, much better than the one in Dublin, even if here animals don't have much room where to move.It happened to see a woman entering the ostrich area and stealing an egg!!!!! Could not find anybody around to denounce that, plus no English speakers anyway. Sad, but it can be improved.

This is a children's zoo. It is quaint, but hardly a major attraction. Apparently I have to say what I liked and did not like. Okay, again I felt like it was a quaint zoo. The animals looked well taken care of, but the habitats were old and showed it.

Having one of the best zoos in the world in my home town makes it difficult to say too much. Nice grounds and if you have never been to a zoo then it is ok. Good to keep children amused.

Not bad at all, you can spend half a day with your family walking among different animals but still you can find something you should see next time. However some reconstruction for the Zoo is more than welcome.

Great place to visit and relax for awhile while looking at the zoo. Well looked after grounds and the animals looked cared for.

This zoo has some wonderful and a beautiful park like grounds. An easy and enjoyable day. A large variety of animals are present and well maintained.While we could all hope for animals living in their natural habitat, this zoo presents the species well and is one of the best I have seen in Eastern Europe.Not to be compared with other zoos in the Americas.It is a refreshing stop in a bustling city and highly unexpected for its quality and grounds.

A zoo that is more that 100 years old. They have a web-page where you can read the story of the zoo. Plenty of nice alleys, tree- and stone-figures. One of the best places to make open-air photo-sessions in Nikolaev.

Maybe a side note to previous reviewers, is that one shouldn't compare a Western European or U.S. zoo to an Eastern European zoo and have the same expectations, but in Ukranian context the Mykolayiv Zoo is a great zoological garden. The animals are obviously well fed and active, there is a big variety, and the staff seem to try hard to put the means they get to good use and improve the conditions for their animals, while making the the zoo an attractive place for visitors. I've been coming here almost every year for the last 10 years, always enjoyed it and I can honestly say that the zoo was improving with every visit (what in my opinion couldn't be said for the Kyiv Zoo, for example).So, if you visit Mykolayiv, you should definitely pay a visit to its Zoo, because, let's be honest, there are few other real touristic attractions, plus you'd be supporting the oldest zoological garden of the country - I'm pretty sure the 2 euro one pays for admission won't make you poorer, but could help the place to keep heading in the right direction ;)

In terms of variety of species the Zoo might be the best in Europe. However the conditions are awful. It is hard to enjoy watching animals and in the same time realize how miserable is their existence.

What a shame that the oldest zoo in the CIS countries has come to this pass. It feels like the post war epoch when all the animals had been eaten. Few animals, mainly in rather smaller areas than we would contemplate in the west; and the whole zoo feels slightly abandoned.It serves the local people to take their children, if there is nothing else to do, but frankly it is not worth visiting. Shame, Maybe San Diego should step in??

Mykolaiv Zoo has a great history and locals boasts pretty much about it. It had 2 famous elephants, 1 of them died and the other is transported somewhere else i guess, as far as I understood with little Russian i have.It is large with a wide range of species, but there are many better zoos in other countries around. Still, safe to say that it is the best zoo of Ukraine.

The Nicholiev Zoo may have been great at one time. It would be a nice place to take children, or people in Ukraine. The animal selection is fair with big cats ( Lions, Tigers, Bears, and and african mammals). The zoo will only impress you if you have not been to a big zoo before. The exhibits are standard, and I was disappointed that the cages were relatively small for the big cats. This zoo is unique in Ukraine and a good place to take a date. The women of Nicholiev will knock your soxs off. The zoo will not.Beside the zoo is an open air market where the People of Ukraine shop for Everything! It is a bazar like no other you may see. There is hardware vendors ( AC, electric, plumbing), farmers market (fresh), hand made goods, shoes, pensioners selling their medals, recycled products, and almost every product available in the small stalls. This is worth a visit to see how the people of Ukraine live and shop.

le zoo de Nikolaev le plus grand zoo d'ukraine , il y a enormement d'animaux mais les habitats et strucure sont tres vetuste , un besoin urgent de renover se fait sentir, mais les animaux sont bien traites et soigner.endroit agreable .