Description of the attraction
Tourists visiting Abkhazia will certainly make an excursion to the Sukhumi monkey nursery, known throughout the former Soviet Union, especially since the onset of the era of space flight. The Sukhumi monkey nursery will soon celebrate the centenary of its foundation. It was created in the 20s of the XX century specifically for carrying out medical research experiments on monkeys, and in territories far from their natural habitats. In connection with the expansion of the scope of research work in 1957, the biomedical station was transformed into a research institute of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. Sukhumi was chosen because of its humid subtropical climate, suitable for keeping most of the species composition of primates outdoors, and the possibility of growing plant food familiar to them here.
The initiator of the creation of the nursery was the People's Commissar of Health N. A. Semashko. For the organization of the nursery, the building of the former dacha of Professor Ostroumov on Mount Trapezia was originally chosen, where the first four monkeys were delivered in 1927, the rest from a batch of fifteen hundred individuals died on the way from Guinea. In subsequent years, different types of monkeys could take root here, such as hamadryas, baboons, anubis, rhesus monkeys, Javanese and Japanese monkeys. Some of them, from 1974 to the present day, live in a free population in the valley of the Gumista River. Here scientists tested the first vaccines, tested the effect of antibiotics and drugs. Twelve pets of the Sukhumi nursery have been in space.
Today, there are more than three hundred monkeys in the nursery, they still bring an invaluable contribution to the development of science and medicine.
Reviews
| All reviews 0 Alena 2015-29-04 12:27:10 AM
Awful place We were in this "wonderful" place on April 25, 2015 on the advice of friends. cursed everything in the world. firstly, it is very difficult to get there, especially with a child. and secondly and in the main, no one warned that it is simply dangerous to approach the cells.
we came and bought food, tickets and went. the child naturally became to …
