The Rostov zoo is among the city's main attractions and is one of the largest zoos in Russia. The zoo was founded in June 1927 on the basis of the living area of the school. C. Budyonny. In 1929 the school's animal collection was moved to the outskirts of the city, where for these purposes has been allocated to the territory of several suburban areas. After a year in the Rostov zoo has several exotic animals - monkey, lion, leopard, elephant, llama, Puma, tiger, parrots, ostriches, sea lions, crocodile and Python. All these animals were confiscated from a private menagerie A. Filatov, toured while in town.

The Rostov zoo became a party of about 37 programs for the conservation of endangered and rare species of animals. At the zoo saved the oak trees older than 150 years, poplar, Linden, pine, also has four artificial pond that creates particularly favorable microclimate for animals.

Today in the Rostov zoo is home to over 5 thousand animals that belong to over 400 species. Here are the Asian elephants, lions, pygmy hippos, giraffes, tigers, a group of hoofed animals, rare animals of the Caucasus, for example, bezoar goat, Caucasian Tur and apes. Many of the animals listed in the Red book of the IUCN, Russia and Rostov region.

The zoo of the city of Rostov-on-don, Russia occupies one of leading places in Europe for breeding white-tailed eagles. The zoo has enjoyed great success in the breeding of Siamese crocodiles, and crowned Japanese cranes, kangaroo Bennett, flamingos and many other species of carnivores. In addition, in the Rostov zoo there is a section of the aquarium with a variety of representatives of the underwater world. In the terrarium contains crocodiles from South-East Asia, snakes of Central Asia, America, Africa, various turtles and many other exotic reptiles.