Monkey nursery, situated in the village Merry in the Adler district of Sochi, is a research Institute of medical Primatology. The kennel was established in 1927. For all time of its existence having been involved in various studies related to the study of the higher nervous activity in areas such as infectious pathology, experimental Oncology and other areas. It is here tested on monkeys, and then introduced into medical practice methods of dealing with various dangerous to human life infectious and viral diseases (tetanus, diphtheria, Asiatic cholera, gas gangrene), as well as prevention of their. Conducted a series of studies on the tick-borne relapsing fever, viral encephalitis, viral hepatitis, polio, measles and so on. The Institute has passed the test of new antibiotics designed to treat many infectious diseases, and methods of their application. In the early 80-ies. began the study of AIDS. Director of the Institute is B. . Lapin is a member of the RAMS.

Scientific institution consists of six large divisions: zootechnical laboratories, laboratories of oncogynecology and immunology, pathology, biological control and infectious diseases, clinical Department. Today the area of the Adler research Institute is 100 ha. In small and large halls is more than 2 thousand Asian and African species of monkeys, among them different species of macaques, baboons, green monkeys, hamadryas and others.

The most interesting that in a Fun pre-trained monkeys participating in space flight. Here they returned, having completed their space Odyssey. Today in the nursery chimpanzees live Dasha and Tisha, they flew into space in 1998 at the entrance to the nursery the attention of visitors is attracted by a model of a spaceship with a stuffed monkey who made a space flight more than half a century ago.