Updated for September 2026
The Best Zoos in Ukraine
How this list is ordered: by how complete our listing is — how much we hold on opening hours, ticket prices, accreditation, photographs, animals and facilities. It is a measure of our own coverage, not a judgement of the venue. We hold no visitor scores or conservation assessments, so “best” here means every zoo in Ukraine that qualifies for the list, fullest entry first.
Listed alphabetically
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Keeper talk or show
Rivne Zoo
Zoo in Рівне
Formed in 1982, it covers 13.5 hectares and holds 216 species, roughly 1,500 individual animals. Among them are 108 species listed in the international Red Book and 13 in Ukraine's, and it is the only Ukrainian collection with wildebeest, two-toed sloths and a southern three-banded armadillo. It works closely with the collections at Lutsk, Mykolaiv and Odesa.
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Keeper talk or showGuided tourOn-site dining
Зоопарк ХІІ Місяців
Zoo in Демидов
It opens every day of the year, which gave rise to the Twelve Months name. The site is in Vyshhorod raion of Kyiv oblast, close to the village of Demydiv.
Our ranking methodology
This is not a ranking. The 3 venues above are listed alphabetically by name, the same order used throughout this site. We do not collect visitor reviews, star ratings, ticket-sales figures or a conservation-impact score, so none of those exist here to rank by — “best” in this page’s title means every venue that qualifies for this list, not first-to-last by quality. If we ever add a data source robust enough to support an honest ranking, this note and the order above will change together.