Ukraine's Kharkov Zoo was built in 1896 and opened to the public in 1903, and given its location, has probably seen its shares of ups and downs over the years. One of those downs ~ followed, thankfully, by one of those ups ~ took place recently as city residents, facing an unknown future themselves, rallied to answer the zoo director's call for help. Emigrée Alina Simone and her father recall his brief stint there after he was blacklisted by the KGB (print, audio versions):
http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-03-14/soviet-born-migr-remembers-working-kharkov-zoo
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