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09.03.2021 – Temporary changes in the Aquarium’s operation
The Dolphinarium at the Primorsky Aquarium will be temporarily closed to the public from March 1 due to planned repair works in the pools housing the bottlenose dolphins.
09.03.2021 – Riding the collaboration wave: the Primorsky Aquarium conducts an online meeting with the Lotte World Aquarium
03.03.2021 – In memory of our colleague and friend
The Primorsky Aquarium staff members are grieving over the unimaginable loss of Mikhail Streltsov, one of the founders of the scientific and educational center and Head of the Department of Tropical Marine Species Husbandry. He passed away at the age of 61.
16.02.2021 – Meet Mario: a new resident explores the Aquarium
The first northern fur seal born at the Primorsky Aquarium has begun his independent life. The baby seal called Mario has switched from mother’s milk to fish and moved from quarantine into a permanent enclosure. Thus, it is high time to be introduced to the general public.
11.02.2021 – Project for high school pupils is summarized at the Aquarium
On February 5, the Primorsky Aquarium’s conference hall hosted a research and practice conference, which summed up the collaborative project “Research and Project Ideas Lab”.
05.02.2021 – The Primorsky Aquarium welcomes its first baby giant Pacific octopuses
The female laid several thousand eggs in mid-August, the first babies began to emerge five months later, and now they number in the dozens.
29.01.2021 – Rare penguins are born at the Aquarium
The Primorsky Aquarium has several new additions to its penguin family – chicks have hatched to six pairs of Humboldt penguins. Of two eggs laid by a female penguin, only one is usually fertile, and two chicks born to a pair are a real luck. The Aquarium has been lucky twice.
15.01.2021 – The Aquarium becomes home to a scorpion for the first time
The Tropical Rain Forest exhibit has welcomed about a hundred newcomers: bird spiders, chameleons, lizards, several species of frogs and a scorpion. Among the new arrivals there are species that have never been represented in the Aquarium’s collection before - for example, the Asian forest scorpion and the fire skink.
11.01.2021 – More colours: the underwater tunnel is decorated with a “garland” of bright fishes
The large community inhabiting the underwater tunnel tank has seen the addition of more than fifty tropical fish relocated from the Science and Acclimation Building of the Primorsky Aquarium. The newcomers include foxface rabbitfish (Siganus vulpinus), sailfin snappers (Symphorichthys spilurus), yellowbanded sweetlips (Plectorhinchus lineatus) and yellow tangs (Zebrasoma flavescens). These fish are very bright, and each of them has various shades of yellow in its colouration.
25.12.2020 – The Primorsky Aquarium looks forward to welcoming guests during New Year holidays
Over the New Year holidays, the Primorsky Aquarium will operate on a special schedule. The facility will be closed on December 31 and January 1. Throughout the rest of the holidays — from January 2 to January 10 — the Aquarium will be open to the public daily, including Monday, January 4: the maintenance activities, which are usually conducted on this weekday, will be cancelled. The exhibits of one of the world’s largest aquariums will be available to visitors from 10 a.m. till 8 p.m.
18.12.2020 – Spotted seal gets back to the Primorsky Aquarium after a long journey
After an absence of half a year, one of the Primorsky Aquarium’s six spotted seals — Dulcinea, or Dusya for short — has returned home! Her journey lasted from May to late November. As this period coincides with the seals’ seasonal migration, Igor Katin, who is Scientific Head at the Laboratory of Marine Mammals, the A. V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, FEB RAS and Principal Specialist at the Primorsky Aquarium Shared Equipment Facility, thinks that Dusya, together with a major portion of the spotted seals from Peter the Great Bay, travelled a long way.
24.11.2020 – Amazing animal:1,100 kilos of grace and charm
On November 24, Walrus Day is celebrated in Russia. For obvious reasons, the Primorsky Aquarium’s star and Russia’s most famous walrus – Misha – cannot be interviewed, that is why one of his trainers, Mikhail Porshin, has told us about this whiskered crowd-pleaser.
18.11.2020 – Educational project for school children changes its format to go beyond the Aquarium’s walls
The most popular part of the Educational Environment project – the Lesson at the Aquarium program – is now available in an online learning format, and school children from across Primorye can participate in it, regardless of where they live.
06.11.2020 – An ancient reptile is found on Russky Island
A fossil of an ichthyosaur that lived about 247 million years ago has been spotted on Russky Island. It is probably one of the most ancient marine reptiles from the Triassic of Russia.
06.11.2020 – The Aquarium participates in celebration honoring 30 years of Russia-South Korea diplomatic relations
At the Primorsky Aquarium, Branch of the A. V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, an exhibition has opened to mark the 30th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Korea.