The entry was published on June 8, 2021 by Daria Savelyeva in the category Finds for tourists with the tags holidays, travel, attractions, weekend getaways, tourists.
As much as three-quarters of our planet is occupied by the world ocean, which is a habitat for countless living creatures. In addition to underwater inhabitants, its resources also feed people. It is the ocean that makes Earth a habitable planet. The processes occurring in it determine the existence of nature.
An international holiday, World Oceans Day, June 8, is called upon to draw attention to the problems of the world’s oceans, raise the level of public awareness about it and its inhabitants, and reveal the inextricable connection of humanity with the underwater world.
This event is especially important for people whose profession is connected with the underwater world: oceanographers, divers, fishermen, sailors and sea captains, ecologists and ichthyologists, workers of aquariums and oceanariums. And therefore, especially for World Oceans Day, we have prepared a mini-review of the largest oceanariums and aquariums in Russia, which will be interesting to visit not only with children.
Moscow, oceanarium in the shopping center "RIO"
Photo © Oceanarium in the RIO shopping center |
oceanarium-rio.ru An Oceanarium was opened in a shopping and entertainment center in Moscow in 2011, presenting a large number of marine fish, seals, turtles, fish and sharks (more than 10,000 specimens) for public viewing.
The area of the oceanarium is 3.5 thousand square meters, of which 1000 square meters are occupied by aquariums with sea water and the same amount by enclosures with land animals. The rest of the aquarium is reserved for a souvenir shop and a small hall where shows with seals and fur seals take place. At another site there are feeding shows for hammerhead fish, leopard sharks and other predators.
The oceanarium is divided into 9 zones: “North”, “Arctic and Antarctic”, “Tropical Forest”, “Lagoon”, “Cave”, “Amazon”, “Ocean”, “Decorative Aquariums” and “The Hold of a Pirate Ship”. In these areas you can see amazing animals: African penguins, arapaima, dik-dik antelopes and many others.
Cost of children's and adult tickets
According to the rules of the aquarium, children's rooms are intended for children from 3 to 12 years old. Children under 3 years old can travel for free. A 15% discount is available for birthday people of any age.
Aquarium
Ticket prices for entry to the aquarium zone (valid for August 2021):
| Days of the week | Time (h) | For adults | For children |
| Mon.-Thu. | 10-16 | 800 rub. | 600 rub. |
| Mon.-Thu. | 16-21 | 900 rub. | 600 rub. |
| Fri.-Sun. | 10-21 | 1,000 rub. | 800 rub. |
| Mon.-Thu. | 10-21 | 2,200 rub. 2 adults and 1 child | |
| Mon.-Thu. | 10-21 | 2,800 rub. 2 adults and 2 children | |
| Fri.-Sun. | 10-21 | 2,400 rub. 2 adults and 1 child | |
| Fri.-Sun. | 10-21 | 3,200 rub. 2 adults and 2 children | |
| Large families and disabled people of the second category | |||
| Mon.-Thu. | 10-16 | 300 rub. | 300 rub. |
| Mon.-Thu. | 16-21 | 450 rub. | 450 rub. |
| Pensioners | |||
| Monday is not a holiday | 10-21 | 450 rub. | — |
For disabled people of the first category, heroes of Russia, WWII veterans, the ticket price is a symbolic 10 rubles. Discount tickets are sold only to Moskvarium. You will need to show documents to receive the discount.
Excursions
The price of the entrance ticket does not include the cost of the excursion. The selected excursion program is paid separately. The cost varies depending on the duration of the excursion, the age and number of participants, and the language of the lecture (Russian or English). Ticket prices are not affected by the day of the week or time. Excursions are held daily from 10:00 to 19:00
| Number of listeners | Age or category | Cost for a group (RUB) |
| “A trip around the world”, 50 min | ||
| 1-3 | Everyone is interested. | 1 500 |
| 4-7 | 2 000 | |
| 8-10 | 2 500 | |
| 11-15 | 5 000 | |
| 16-25 | 6 000 | |
| 26-35 | 8 000 | |
| 2-35 | Socially vulnerable people. | 2 000 |
| “Secrets of the Kingdom of Neptune”, 50 min | ||
| 16-25 | Children of primary and secondary school age | 5 000 |
| 26-35 | 7 000 | |
| “A trip around the world” in English, 50 min | ||
| 1-4 | Everyone is interested. | 2 500 |
| 5-10 | 4 000 | |
| up to 25 | 8 000 | |
| up to 35 | 10 000 | |
Water show
- The cost ranges from 1,500 to 5,000 rubles and depends on the chosen location.
- Tickets purchased are only valid for a specific date and time. If it is not possible to attend a paid session, tickets must be returned or exchanged.
- The cost for adult and child seats is the same. The performance lasts 100 minutes without intermission, so it is not recommended for children under 3 years old.
- There is a special promotion at Moskvarium. Having purchased tickets to the water show, you can visit the aquarium area on the same day for only 500 rubles.
- You cannot buy discounted tickets for the water show.
Exhibition "Jaws"
The price of tickets to the exhibition does not depend on the date and time:
- For adults – 500 rub.
The tooth of the largest extinct shark Megalodon in the Mosaquarium Oceanarium in Moscow - For children and privileged categories of citizens – 250 rubles.
Swimming with dolphins
| Service | Variety | Cost, rub.) |
| Individual swimming | 1 dolphin | 15 000 |
| 2 dolphins | 20 000 | |
| Subscription for 10 sessions | 130 000 | |
| Group swimming | 6-10 people, 5 minutes for each | 3,500 (per person) |
| 7-12 people, 20 min for everyone | 6,500 (per person) | |
| Family swimming | Up to 4 people, 1 dolphin | 25,000 (per group) |
| Up to 6 people, 2 dolphins | 30,000 (per group) | |
| Dolphin therapy | Up to 9 sessions | 5,000 (per session) |
| 10 or more sessions | 4,000 (per session) | |
| Communication with dolphins (without swimming) | For groups from 3 to 8 people | 5,000 (per person) |
Additionally, you can order photo and video recording of a swimming session, video or film editing. You can purchase a gift certificate.
St. Petersburg, Oceanarium "Planet Neptune"
Photo © Oceanarium “Planet Neptune” |
oceanarium.rf Oceanarium “Planet Neptune” is one of the most fascinating places in St. Petersburg. Its dimensions exceed 5,000 square meters, on which there are 35 aquariums. The oceanarium is inhabited by more than 4,500 representatives of marine fauna.
The main aquarium has a volume of 750 thousand liters. It is home to predatory fish, including sharks, rays and moray eels. Also in the aquarium there are exhibitions with marine mammals - gray Baltic seals.
Almost every day at the Planet Neptune aquarium, professional scuba divers and trainers organize performances with sharks and seals. Another opportunity to diversify your visit is to come during demonstration feeding hours (information about this can be found on the official website of the aquarium).
Scientific adaptation building
The Primorsky Oceanarium is not only a museum of marine nature, but also a scientific laboratory. Scientists biologists have the opportunity to observe hydrobionts of all natural zones and climatic zones of the Earth in their natural habitat, without going on long expeditions.
Scientific Adaptation Center at the Primorsky Oceanarium inside...
...and outside
All animals entering the aquarium undergo mandatory quarantine in the scientific adaptation building.
Sochi, Sochi Discovery World Aquarium
Photo © Sochi Discovery World Aquarium |
vk.com/sochiaquarium The Sochi Discovery World Aquarium, with an area of 6,000 square meters, located in the Adler district of Sochi, is the largest in Russia. In 29 aquariums with a total volume of 5 million liters of water you can see a wide variety of representatives of the seas, oceans and fresh waters.
Exotic piranhas, discus fish, cichlids, cat and reef sharks, nurse sharks, as well as fish such as unicorns, balls, cows, hedgehogs, and surgeons await you. In the tropical forest atmosphere of one of the rooms with a real waterfall, more than 100 species of freshwater species from the Amazon and Australia live.
Once in the second hall, you will get acquainted with the inhabitants of the seas and oceans, walking through a 44-meter glass tunnel, where corals sparkle and stingrays, sharks, catfish swim - from microscopic to giant sizes, and you will feel like one of the inhabitants of the ocean.
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03/30/2021 at 21:57
I am an adult, but I rejoiced like a child from everything I saw. Awesome tropical forest. Stingrays are something special. We learned about the oceanarium here https://magnitico.com/primorskiy-okeanarium-vladivostok-zacharuet This year I would like to repeat the trip there.
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Anapa, Ocean Park aquarium
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pixabay.com Ocean Park aquarium in Anapa is one of the aquariums of the famous network. Here you can see numerous inhabitants of the deep sea.
The aquarium's motto is: "Have fun while learning, and learn while having fun." Educational excursions are organized for visitors, where they will tell in detail about the marine fauna and its most interesting representatives. In the aquarium you can see stingrays, sharks, piranhas, and koi carps that can change their color.
The Anapa Oceanarium is located in the building of the local dolphinarium, which allows you to combine several pleasant ways to spend your free time communicating with representatives of the marine world.
Dolphin swim center
This site of the oceanographic complex includes seven swimming pools, where therapeutic and preventive classes are held - dolphin therapy sessions for children.
You can also visit the Center for Swimming with Dolphins in an entertaining and educational format: individual, family, and group swimming sessions are possible, and subscriptions are available.
One of the new products of this site is the “Young Coach School” for children aged 8 to 17 years. The program includes a detailed introduction to Moskvarium, lectures, interactive activities - games with dolphins, swimming.
The Center employs experienced trainers.
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Vladivostok, oceanarium
An animated Kronosaurus.
Photo: Maria Borodina, RIA PrimaMedia The Vladivostok Oceanarium is an amazing maritime museum, including exhibitions of aquaflora and fauna of the Pacific Ocean, warm tropical seas, lakes and rivers of the Far East, Africa and the Amazon. The aquarium's exhibitions occupy three halls with a total area of 1,500 square meters. A visit to this museum is comparable to a short sea voyage. The oceanarium's museum collection contains more than 1,000 exhibits, including sea shells, corals, sponges, fish and other marine animals. There are also completely unique exhibits, for example, the skull of a Steller’s cow, a very rare mammal of the sirenian order that was considered extinct until recently. The oceanarium's aquariums contain about 120 species of marine life. What interesting creatures you won’t find in its shimmering blue windows!
The implementation of the Vladivostok Oceanarium project was started in 1987 by a specially created creative group. The technical equipment was supplied by the Japanese. Construction of the aquarium was completed in 1990 and its doors were first opened on Fisherman's Day, July 12, 1991.
Currently, the aquarium continues to develop, painstaking work is being carried out to collect new material and expand the collections.
Ekaterinburg, Aqua Gallery oceanarium
Photo: Julia Primus |
vk.com/oceanariumekb The Oceanarium, or Aqua Gallery, in Yekaterinburg is the largest exhibition of exotic fish in the Ural region and throughout vast Russia. In terms of distance from the ocean, it is the only one in the CIS located at such a far distance from the ocean.
Different parts of the exhibition provide an opportunity to get acquainted with ordinary and very exotic inhabitants of fresh waters, and allow you to observe tropical marine fish and other rare animals. You can watch the process of feeding predators - sharks and moray eels. It is also interesting to see with your own eyes how piranhas, stingrays, turtles, lionfish and other fish feed.
The entire oceanarium consists of more than 30 aquariums, which have a total water volume of more than 100,000 liters. The largest aquarium holds almost 5000 liters of water.
Krasnodar, oceanarium
Photo: Evgenia Malyutina |
vk.com/oceanpark At the end of 2011, the largest oceanarium in the south of the country opened in Krasnodar. Residents and guests of the city, visiting this place, immediately feel like an underwater inhabitant.
Upon entering, visitors are greeted by a mechanical fish-machine, which represents the head of a shark with moving jaws and eyes burning with terrible fire. So the authors of the idea wanted to emphasize that the world in the ocean waters is not safe.
The eerie picture is replaced by a soft interior with slightly dimmed neon lights. Many compare the environment of the Krasnodar aquarium with the landscapes from the movie “Avatar”.
The oceanarium building occupies more than 200 square meters. Here you can see aquariums with marine life and exotic representatives of river underwater fauna.
The most exciting moment when visiting the aquarium is walking through the tunnel with sharks swimming overhead. The aquarium, where visitors are allowed to touch the swimming fish, is very popular among visitors.
Reviews
Of course, many tourists believe that the new aquarium has transformed Sochi even more.
The excursion, demonstrating the unique world of the underwater kingdom, leaves no one indifferent. Guests especially like the idea of a mermaid. And, of course, everyone is amazed by the huge tunnel and unique koi fish. Visitors compare the aquarium with a real fairy tale, which, after reading it once, makes you want to
Alushta, aquarium
Photo © Alushta Aquarium |
alushta-aqua.ru Alushta Aquarium is a large oceanarium in Crimea. Located in the city of Alushta. A popular attraction on the southern coast of the peninsula.
Founded in 2003. Initially it had 1 hall, with an exposition of the inhabitants of the Black and Azov Seas. But already in 2005 it was the largest aquarium on the southern coast of Crimea. In 2008, in addition to fish and sea animals, the exhibition began to display corals and sea shells collected all over the world.
The 4 halls are home to more than 250 species of marine and freshwater fish, 8 species of turtles, 3 species of crocodiles, 5 species of crabs. In the first hall, which is arranged in the form of a cave, you can see the inhabitants of the Black and Azov Seas. In the second and third halls, fish from various fresh water bodies of the world are exhibited, among some you can see: piranhas, freshwater moray eels, arapaima, hydrosinus vitattus, red parrot, Cichlid, killer whale catfish, Lepidosiren, Semaprochilodus, Metinis, several species of turtles, crocodiles. The fourth hall presents the inhabitants of the Red Sea, Pacific and Indian Oceans. There is also a separate exhibition of animals “Jungle World”, when visiting which you can see: meerkats, guinea pigs, monitor lizards, hamsters, snakes, different types of birds, etc.
Photo one © Oceanarium in the RIO shopping center | oceanarium-rio.ru
