At the close of the war, the area where the Berlin Zoo is located came under the jurisdiction of the British Zone of Occupation.[1][2] In 1946, British soldiers discovered Saturn, and brought him to Leipzig, then part of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, where they gave Saturn to the Soviets.[3][7][4][10][5][12] While the exact details of how Saturn came to Russia are unknown since the Moscow tourist office burnt down in the 1950s, it is known that the Red Army transported Saturn, along with an Indian python, to Moscow in July 1946, and brought him to live in the Moscow Zoo.[7][3][8][9][10][11][13] When the alligator arrived at the Moscow Zoo, he was instantly a popular attraction, as there were only two crocodiles at the zoo and no other alligators.[3] His German origins earned him the nickname 'Hitler', but he was later given the name 'Saturn'.[2] In 1993, when Russian tanks were moving down the Garden Ring after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Saturn cried out because of the vibrations, which a zookeeper thinks reminded him of the Battle of Berlin.[10]