It is located in the center of Sevastopol on Nakhimov Ave. 2 in a classic white building of the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas. Created in 1897, and its predecessor was the biological station, organized in 1871 by prof. A.O. Kovalevsky and Baron N.N. Miklouho-Maclay. Expeditions of scientists from the institute around the world, including those with the famous crew of Cousteau, deliver all new living exhibits to the aquarium. In the Central Basin, 2.5 m deep and 9.2 m in diameter, live the inhabitants of the Black Sea: katran shark, beluga, sturgeon, large stingrays - fur cats. In 12 wall aquariums with a volume of 7 cubic meters, fish, turtles, mollusks, algae and corals from all the seas and oceans of the world, including very rare and unusual ones, are presented. Recently, new containers with their motley population have been added to them. The collection of exotic rare animals is also replenished.