News, events, press realeses
14.08.2023Primorsky Aquarium runs charity eventOn Saturday, August 12, the Primorsky Aquarium held a charity event called Ocean of Hope. The facility’s specialists and volunteers combined their efforts to conduct an exclusive program for residents of “Zhivaya Nadezhda” (“living hope” - translator’s note), a women’s crisis shelter located in Vladivostok’s suburbs.
10.08.2023Young SeaLs to appear this autumn at Primorsky AquariumThis coming October Growing up at the Aquarium, an environmental education project run by the Primorsky Aquarium, will be expanded with a new club called SeaL. This name is an abbreviation of the phrase “sea of life”, which reflects the contents of the club’s entertaining and rich program. SeaL is aimed at children aged 12 to 13 years.
03.08.2023Beluga Kalina celebrates her birthdayOn Tuesday, August 1, 2023, Kalina ̶ Russia’s first captive-bred beluga ̶ turned two.
27.07.2023Discovery Island program results have been summed upThe first session of a new summer program for primary school students called Discovery Island has finished at the Primorsky Aquarium. Kids studied Russky Island, learned about the values of its nature, animals and plants, as well as about its history.
27.07.2023Primorsky Aquarium is the only place in Russia to determine sex of Humboldt penguinsThe Primorsky Aquarium has hatched one more group of penguin chicks. It is the only institution in Russia that can determine the sex of penguins by molecular methods. Keepers from the Ornithology Department told us about hatching in penguins and about the process of sex identification.
In the Primorsky Aquarim visitors will be able to see large scale exhibits, which will show theories about the origin of our Universe, evolution in the ocean, and also will present current biodiversity in the fresh and salt waters of our planet. Most of the exhibits will be live ones. They will let you meet inhabitants of the Russian water zones, such as the Sea of Japan / East Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea, the Amur River, Lake Baikal and Lake Khanka, as well as inhabitants of cool polar seas, warm tropical rivers and seas, and the open ocean.