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Grodno Zoo, is a zoo, located in Grodno in Belarus.〔 Grodno Zoo was founded in 1927 as the first zoo in Belarus on the initiative of the high school teacher Jan Kochanowski. In 1926 Kochanowski, together with his pupils, established a botanical garden in the city park, which in 1927 received the first animals. The new zoological department had 17 species of local fauna. Nine years later in 1936, Grodno zoo had about 400 exhibits,〔 The second world war more or less destroyed the zoo, and not much was left in 1944. On 12 December 1944 the Executive Committee of Grodno decided to restore the zoo. The zoo opened its gate again on 28 September 1946.〔 The first Asian elephant arrived on 30 August 1955 from Vietnam.〔 Grodno Zoo became a member of EARAZA in 2009.〔 ==Jan Kochanowski== The founder of Grodno Zoo, Jan Kochanowski Yuzefovich, was born in 1894 in the city of Grodno. In 1942, local patriots was arrested by the Gestapo for the murder of a German doctor and imprisoned along with other representatives of the intelligentsia of Grodno. When the city turned to the occupation authorities for the release of hostages, the Gestapo chief agreed not to shoot all of the captives. Among the captives to be shot was one Kochanowski teacher Jozef Vevyursky - the father of six children. The remaining hostages, including Jan Kochanowski, were to be set free, but Kochanowski appealed to the German officer to include him among those sentenced to death instead of Jozef Vevyurskogo, since he did not have a family. In the autumn of 1942 Jan Kochanowski Yuzefovich was shot.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grodno Zoo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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