A great place for nature walks with clean and well-groomed valliers and small animals that can be fed with vegetables purchased directly at the zoo's ticket office. But it's better to bring oranges for bears with you, and then you will be guaranteed a master class from bears on cleaning and eating them! ;)
This is the place you want to go back to!!!
A wonderful place to spend a day off with family, children, friends or alone! 👍
We visited 2 times: the first time as part of an excursion, the second time we arrived in our own car.
There is a beautiful modern museum of nature. There are aviaries with animals in the open air. The enclosures are large, and the animals here are more spacious than in any zoo.
Animals can be fed. At the entrance, they sell pieces of vegetables for feeding at the checkout. 180 gr. a plastic cup cost 2 rubles in September 2024. Bison is only so dirty in the company.
We prepared: at home we washed and cut half a package-T-shirts of apples, carrots, zucchini.
By the way, if apples are sweet, then this is a hit with all animals except wolves: bear, deer, moose, and every little thing.
The bear did not eat zucchini, and the sad moose refused carrots. The bison eats everything. We didn't think to take meat to the wolves. But they seem to be doing well anyway.
For the information of mushroom pickers: from a conversation with a local resident, the wolves that live in the forests have eaten almost all the dogs in the surrounding villages, even those that sit in the courtyards in booths (they train the young).
The reserve organizes a lot of activities: kayaking, horseback riding and hiking, there was a music festival in August (they say there were 6 thousand visitors), there was a large tent camping, a foot court, and everything that is usual at such events.
For those who wish, there is a 4-storey hotel on the territory.
All information and schedules are available on the reserve's website.
It's a pity that we found out too late, next year we want to go kayaking.
In general, it is a very sincere and atmospheric place (no wonder that it is biospheric), where you can spend time on a positive basis or be alone with nature in silence.
I recommend it to everyone! 👍👍👍
On Friday, 03/21, almost no one was there. There are few animals, they have large enclosures, so you should not expect to see them up close. Even yummy treats won't help. They are afraid of any sudden movement and noise. The bison ate a head of cabbage and 2 kilos of carrots. Well, pets, of course, the child likes, they take food out of their hands, a lot of delight.
A tent is being built opposite the entrance, and there will probably be a cafe. The toilets are very well built, it seems to me that they are rustic, but everything inside is modern. There will be a playground behind the tent, it has already been installed, it is very colorful and interesting, however, the gears do not work, the chips get stuck in the mazes, the rope for lifting is not fixed. I want to believe that the performer is playground.by will fix the bugs. There are a lot of swings, in general it will be a great place for children to play. I really want to believe that the tiles that lie next to it WILL NOT BE LAID ON the PLAYGROUND, otherwise there will be a lot of injuries.