Two weeks in Novosibirsk. Preliminary results of the manul marathon

Zosia has the best butt!

Zhora is the best!

Novosibirsk is the best!

Анна, We’ve got an answer for the generals too!

Pavel, thank you for so many great photos.

A feast for the eyes and concentrated dopamine.😊

Pavel, thank you so much for the photo reports; over two weeks of daily viewing, I’ve studied almost all the Novosibirsk manul kittens, all the names are labeled, and that is very valuable🤝🤝🤝

Евгения Власова, thank you!

At https://manulization.ru/manulover/pell/posts/den-rodenia-manulomana-bjpfro8dusllb5r0.html I promised that I would try to emphasize educational value and informativeness. Captions under the photos are the bare minimum. Unfortunately, I still haven’t learned to tell all the Evachiks apart at a glance, so their photos are labeled generically as Evachik(s).

"P.P.S. Zosia has a BUTT 🤗🥰😍" — and there’s also a TAIL there, the fattest one of all!
"13 tickets to the zoo, not a single one with a manul" — Pavel, well, after the third one I’d already politely ask, and after the fifth I’d demand they show me where the manul is on the ticket!!! I hope you investigated who gets the tickets with the manul?))) 

Demonic Zhordelka is the discovery of September, if not of the whole autumn! An incredible kitty♥️ 

Irina, I’ll come to see them sometime in November, and by then Jordelka won’t be demonic anymore, but an angelic little Jordelka — then mom and dad will take her in hand and raise her properly)

l83, Mom was the one who raised the Demonic one, after all 😁 And Daddy can only refine the demonic nature 😈🥰

Such wonderful photos!  Thanks for the updates on all the cats as we head into the fattening season!

And I must say Miss Anya is such a proper young lady!  

mnamosyna (rachael), A young lady ready for marriage

Pavel, thanks for the photos! And the reports! And for Zosya’s little butt! 😹☺️

And I also really like this photo. It seems to me that Zhora looks very much like Zelya here. For a moment, I even thought it was him! 💓

George in Novosibirsk Zoo, September 17, 2026

Author: Pavel Burov

Vika Malyshkoverified_filled, There are *so* many photos. I’ll sort through them on long winter evenings. But first I need to sort through June. Then St. Petersburg.

Vika Malyshkoverified_filled, I like that manulovers see new meanings in what seem like random cat photos. I’m just photographing cats in the moment, as they are. Every time I try to catch them when they’re relaxed, when they’re showing themselves, not their other public face. And then, sometimes, I hear that this cat is a dead ringer for its dad/mom/grandpa/grandma/etc. I honestly don’t see that at all when I’m taking the pictures. I’m just photographing the cat as is, trying to shake off the fleeting moment. It seems that sometimes it works 😀 Most likely, purely statistically.