The Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory, near St Petersburg.

The other affiliate of the Pulkovo Observatory was an astrometric station in Nikolaev – a former observatory of the Department of the Navy, ( today ’ s Nikolaev Astronomical Observatory ).

In 1906, a set of seismic stations were built with telemetering to the Pulkovo Observatory in Russia.

* 1839: Pulkovo Observatory, Russia

The Heavens on Earth: Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture ( Duke University Press ; 2010 ) 384 pages ; Topics include astronomy as military science in Sweden, the Pulkovo Observatory in the Russia of Czar Nicholas I, and physics and the astronomical community in late 19th-century America.

In 1859-1860 he worked in Pulkovo Observatory and then worked for over forty years at Brera Observatory.

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.

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

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.

Using glass blanks made by Chance Brothers of Birmingham and Feil-Mantois of Paris, his firm Alvan Clark & Sons ground lenses for refracting telescopes, including the largest in the world at the time: the at Dearborn Observatory at the Old University of Chicago ( the lens was originally intended for Ole Miss ), the two telescopes at the United States Naval Observatory and McCormick Observatory, the at Pulkovo Observatory ( destroyed in the Siege of Leningrad ; only the lens survives ), the telescope at Lick Observatory ( still third-largest ) and later the at Yerkes Observatory, which remains the largest successful refracting telescope in the world.

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

He worked at Dorpat Observatory, in today's Tartu, Estonia, and then in 1879 worked at Pulkovo Observatory, becoming director of the observatory from 1895 until his death.

Hambardzumyan continued his postgraduate studies at Pulkovo Observatory under the guidance of professor Aristarkh Belopolsky in 1928 – 1931.

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.

In 1839, he graduated from the university and moved to the newly opened Pulkovo Observatory, where he was immediately appointed as assistant of the director ( his father ).

Pulkovo Observatory in 1839.

This newly developed method was adopted in Russia, and from 1844, the longitude was measured starting not from the Tartu Observatory but from the Pulkovo Observatory.

Pulkovo Airport (, Aeroport Pulkovo ) is an international airport serving Saint Petersburg, Russia.

* The official site of Pulkovo observatory

It was slightly bigger in aperture and several metres longer than the new ( 1895 ) 30 inch at Pulkovo observatory in the Russian Empire.

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.

Within that collaboration, many American astronomers stayed at Pulkovo for observations and exchanged data with Russian scientists by mail.

In 1890 he became director of Pulkovo Observatory ( until 1894 ) and in the same year became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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.

* 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.

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

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve and Otto Wilhelm von Struve had catalogued a good number of binary stars working at the Observatories of Dorpat and Pulkovo and using 23-and 38-cm telescopes.

In 1885, a 30-inch refracting telescope was installed at Pulkovo, at the time the largest in the world ( see great refractor ).

Around 1845, von Struve's father withdrew from most management activities at the Pulkovo Observatory and focused on individual research.

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

One of them was an astrophysical station in the Crimean town of Simeiz ( Simeiz Observatory ), which had been organized on the basis of a private observatory presented to the Pulkovo Observatory by an astronomy lover N. S. Maltsev in 1908.

The observatory staff was very badly affected by the Great Purge and many Pulkovo astronomers, including the director Boris Gerasimovich, were arrested and executed in the late 1930s.

The 65 cm Zeiss ( 25. 59 inches ) achromatic refractor of Pulkovo observatory.

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.

In 1931 he began working at the Pulkovo Observatory, located to the south of Leningrad.

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

In the south one of the fortified lines ran from the mouth of the Luga River to Chudovo, Gatchina, Uritsk, Pulkovo and then through the Neva River.

Even the guns from the cruiser were moved inland to the Pulkovo Heights to the south of Leningrad.

He could not observe Uranus from Pulkovo because it was too far south.

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 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.

Pulkovo Airport, near Saint Petersburg, Russia

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

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.

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.

** Saint Petersburg ( Pulkovo Airport )

** Saint Petersburg ( Pulkovo Airport )

* Saint Petersburg – Pulkovo Airport