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    The Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory (Russian: Пулковская астрономическая обсерватория, romanized: Pulkovskaya astronomicheskaya observatoriya), officially...
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    volcanology are examples of disciplines for which observatories have been constructed. Historically, observatories were as simple as containing an astronomical...
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  • Saint Petersburg, Russia Pulkovo Observatory, The Central Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Pulkovo, 19 km south of Saint Petersburg...
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    after the area where it is located, along with the village of Pulkovo and Pulkovo Observatory. The airline began on 24 June 1932 with the landing of two...
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    Until [1911] the Observatory belonged to the Navy Ministry, and from 1912 to 1991 MAO became the southern branch of the Pulkovo Observatory. The main objective...
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  • Pulkovo Heights (Russian: Пу́лковские высо́ты) is a chain of hills located to the south of Saint Petersburg. They run to the south-west in the direction...
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    East Coast. After graduation in 1877, he became a member of the Pulkovo Observatory and was sent abroad for two-year post-graduate studies. Accompanied...
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    Maltsov handed his observatory to Pulkovo Observatory as a present. In 1912, the first astrophysical department of Pulkovo Observatory was officially opened...
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    the new (1895) 76 cm (30 in) at Pulkovo observatory in the Russian Empire, and the 68 cm (27 in) at Vienna Observatory (completed early 1880s). In the...
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    Otto Vasil'evich Struve (Отто Васильевич Струве). He headed the Pulkovo Observatory between 1862 and 1889 and was a leading member of the Russian Academy...
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    The Pulkovo meridian, which passes through the center of the main building of the Pulkovo Observatory and is at 30°19′34″[citation needed] east of Greenwich...
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  • many observatories that are no longer in operation. While other sciences, such as volcanology and meteorology, also use facilities called observatories for...
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  • Soviet astronomer. He headed the astrophysics department of the Pulkovo Observatory until he was arrested on 11 May 1937 for counter-revolutionary agitation...
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    Southern Observatory. It was modified to allow solar observations in 1989. A 18 cm (7.1 in) transit telescope built at Pulkovo Observatory was installed...
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  • 1899 – 22 November 1986) was a Soviet astronomer who worked at Pulkovo Observatory. Deutsch was born in the night from December 31, 1899, to January...
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    Petersburg University. In 1880s he worked at Pulkovo Observatory. 1894-1908 he was the head of Tartu Observatory. 1901-1905 he was the president of Estonian...
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    catalogued a good number of binary stars working at the Dorpat and Pulkovo observatories, using 23 cm and 38 cm telescopes. From 1872–1877, with his small...
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    Fyodor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin at Moscow Observatory. In 1888, he joined the staff of Pulkovo Observatory. He worked in spectroscopy and discovered a...
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    Soviet Union. Educated at Leningrad State University (LSU) and the Pulkovo Observatory, Ambartsumian taught at LSU and founded the Soviet Union's first...
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  • This is a list of observatory codes (IAU codes or MPC codes) published by the Minor Planet Center. For a detailed description, see observations of small...
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    to be the father of astrobotany. He worked as an observer at the Pulkovo Observatory from 1906 until 1941. After undertaking an expedition to Alma-Ata...
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  • the Leningrad State University. In 1931 he began working at the Pulkovo Observatory, located to the south of Leningrad. He was considered to be one of...
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    Ludwig von Struve (category Academic staff of Kharkiv Observatory)
    in Pulkovo on relation of Procyon with the neighboring stars). Between 1883 and 1886, Struve was staying abroad in several European observatories, including...
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    was the father of Aleksandr Marianovich Kowalski, who worked at Pulkovo Observatory and who died on July 6, 1902, at the age of 44. [2] [3] The crater...
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  • observed at Simeiz Observatory (Симеиз) in Crimea. Between 1937 and 1944, Belyavsky was the seventh director of the Pulkovo Observatory, where he succeeded...
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    (founded 1773) Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology (1828) Pulkovo Observatory (1839) Ivan Pavlov's Medical Academy and research center. (founded...
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    the staff of the observatory at Moscow University, becoming its director in 1873. In 1890 he became director of Pulkovo Observatory (until 1894) and in...
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    theory of comet tails, meteors and meteor showers, a director of the Pulkovo Observatory Matvei Petrovich Bronstein, theoretical physicist; pioneer of quantum...
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    Retrieved September 8, 2019. Hutchins, Roger (2008). British University Observatories, 1772–1939. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishers. ISBN 978-0-754-63250-4...
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  • head of Space research laboratory at the Saint Petersburg-based Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He believes that global warming...
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