Pulkovo Airport in Saint Petersburg has the same layout ; Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, Sydney Airport in New South Wales, Australia, Perth Airport in Western Australia, Ferihegy in Budapest and Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, Philippines are other examples.

Pulkovo Tupolev Tu-134 | Tu-134A ( Domodedovo International Airport | Domodedovo Airport )

Pulkovo Ilyushin Il-86 | Il-86 ( Pulkovo Airport )

It operated the Pulkovo Airport and was 100 % state owned.

* Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise airliner IL-86 RA-86060 crashed shortly after takeoff with 16 crew on board, at 3: 25pm local time on July 28, 2002, from Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport while on a repositioning flight to Saint Petersburg.

** Victoria Shcherbina ( LJ user saint-autere ) reacted to the news of the August 22 Tu-154 crash in eastern Ukraine, which killed all 170 people on board, by writing about the death of her father, IL-86 navigator of Pulkovo Airlines Valery Shcherbin, in a crash at Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport four years earlier, on July 28, 2002.

Pulkovo Airport, near Saint Petersburg, Russia

Its main bases are Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow and Pulkovo International Airport in Saint Petersburg.

One of the airlines ' Tupolev Tu-214 s at Pulkovo Airport in Saint Petersburg in 2005.

The airport was renamed " Pulkovo Airport " on April 24, 1973.

In May 2008, the City of Saint Petersburg has opened a 1. 5 bn USD tender for a 30 year concession to operate Pulkovo Airport.

* Pulkovo Airport is served by two regular bus lines ( no.

For private car travel, Pulkovo Airport is accessible via the nearby Pulkovo Highway ( Pulkovskoe shosse ) from St. Petersburg city center.

Pulkovo Airport Arrival Terminal

** Saint Petersburg ( Pulkovo Airport )

The Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory (, official name The Central Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Pulkovo, Гла ́ вная ( Пу ́ лковская ) астрономи ́ ческая обсервато ́ рия Росси ́ йской акаде ́ мии нау ́ к ), the principal astronomical observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, located 19 km south of Saint Petersburg on Pulkovo Heights ( 75 m above sea level ).

The airline was named after the area where it is located, along with the village of Pulkovo and Pulkovo Observatory.

It was discovered by Grigoriy N. Neujmin in 1913, and is named after Pulkovo Observatory, near Saint Petersburg.

Together with his father, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Otto Wilhelm von Struve is considered a prominent 19th century astronomer who headed the Pulkovo Observatory between 1862 and 1889 and was a leading member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

As of 2010, Pulkovo is the 4th busiest in Russia after Moscow's Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo airports.

It is anticipated that by 2025 Pulkovo airport will handle 17 million passengers.

Rossiya is currently the largest carrier operating at Pulkovo

The Pulkovo Meridian, which passes through the center of the main building of the Observatory and is located at 30 ° 19, 6 ‘ east of Greenwich, was the point of departure for all former geographical maps of Russia.

Pulkovo Heights () is a chain of hills located to the south of Saint Petersburg.

It is the location of the Pulkovo Observatory and the industrial suburb of Shushary.

Original and current international terminal at Pulkovo

The airport became known as Pulkovo in the late 1950s.

The airport serves as a hub for Rossiya Airlines ( formerly Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise ), and as focus city for Nordavia.

In 2011 roughly 9. 6 million passengers travelled through Pulkovo airport, making it the 4th busiest airport in Russia.

In the near term, Pulkovo strategically focuses on its master plan until 2025 that calls for massive modernization of the entire airport infrastructure.

* Pulkovo Airport, St. Petersburg, Russia by IATA airport code

Throughout its operational history, Perm Airlines offer routes from Perm Bolshoye Savino airport to Moscow Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo airports, Ekaterinburg, Surgut, Baku, Novosibirsk and St. Petersburg ( codeshare flight with St. Petersburg based Pulkovo Airlines ).

* ICAO airport code for Pulkovo Airport.

Pulkovo Federal State Unified Aviation Service Company ( ФГУАП “ Пулково ”) was an airline with its head office in Moskovsky District, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

* On August 22, 2006, Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612, a Tu-154 airliner with 160 passengers and 10 crew on board en route from Anapa to Saint Petersburg, crashed near Donetsk in Ukraine.

In 1881, Struve obtained his master's degree at the University of Tartu, with the highest honors, and in 1882 defended a PhD thesis at Saint Petersburg University ( Pulkovo had no associated educational institutions ).

Winnecke worked at Pulkovo Observatory near Saint Petersburg from 1858 to 1865, but returned to Germany and served as professor of astronomy in Strasbourg from 1872 to 1881.

** Saint Petersburg ( Pulkovo Airport )

* Saint Petersburg – Pulkovo Airport

Margareta Romberg and Otto Neovius met at the Pulkovo observatory in St. Petersburg, where Otto made observations for his thesis on the spectral lines of nitrogen and oxygen.

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve remained in Dorpat, occupied with research on double stars and geodesy until 1839, when he founded and became director of the new Pulkovo Observatory near St Petersburg.

Matvey Matveyevich Gusev () ( in Vyatka, Russia – in Berlin, Germany ) was a Russian astronomer who worked at Pulkovo Observatory near St. Petersburg from 1850 to 1852 and then at Vilnius Observatory ( which he established at the University of Vilnius ) thereafter.

Following her time with the force, Fedorova moved to St. Petersburg to study at the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs ( MVD ) University, where she worked as an investigator at the Pulkovo Transport Police whilst studying.

In June 2004 the airline announced it was in talks with Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise of St. Petersburg, but as of October 2004 no flights had taken place.

The Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory, near St Petersburg.