The President toured the Primorye Oceanarium together with President of the Republic of Korea Park Geun-hye and Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe. Students of Gymnasium No. 2 in Vladivostok were also present at the ceremony, after the President invited them to the opening of the Oceanarium while visiting the school on September 1.

The Primorye Oceanarium science and education centre will become one of the world’s largest facilities of its kind. Its total area is about 35,000 square metres. The main building houses display aquariums with total capacity of 10,000 cubic metres, themed installations, a 70-metre-long underwater tunnel with a moving track, a dolphinarium, and a dolphin therapy department.

The complex will include over 500 species of marine and freshwater animals, inhabitants of Russia’s water areas (Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea, Amur River and Lake Khanka), polar seas, tropical rivers, and the world ocean.