Named Tsar, the two-month-old liger cub, is the offspring of a tigress Princess and lion Caesar, zoo director Erik Airapetyan told AFP.
"They have lived together for a long time and know each other well. When the tigress was on heat, she didn't have any other choice," he said.
The cub has the beige fur of a lion and the stripes of a tiger and is currently being fed on milk from one of the zoo's goats.
A liger called Hercules in the United States is currently listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as the biggest feline in the world, at a weight of 418 kilograms and length of 3.33 metres.
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