Pulkovo Observatory

The Pulkovo Observatory is located on the Pulkovo Heights. It was designed in 1827 by Vasily Yakovlevich Struve. He became the first director of the observatory.

At the foot of the Pulkovo mountain is one of the entrances to the the observatory, right there is the entrance to the military cemetery “Pulkovskoye”.

The hill is 74 meters high, the whole staircase does not fit in the frame.

On the stairs you can see a mosaic: Sun, Saturn and the Moon.

Observatory gates is located at the top of the hill, next to the bus stop.

If you walk from the foot of the mountain to the gate along the Pulkovo Highway, you can see the grotto fountain “Old Man”, designed in 1807 by Voronikhin A.N.

The main building of the Pulkovo Observatory, originally built in 1834-1839. Designed by Bryullov A.P.

Near the main building there are four small pavilions built in 1947-1953 under the project of Shchusev A.V. and Svetlitsky P.P. Pavilions designed for short-focus double astrograph and a normal astrograph.

Radio astronomy observatory. Designed by D. Enikeev in the 1950s.

The first radio telescope.

Small radio telescope and Second radio telescope.

Big Pulkovo Radio Telescope. Designed in the 1950s by the Enikeev D.

Astrophysical laboratory. Designed in the 1950s by Baransky A.

Automatic meridian telescope.

Pavilion for the 26-inch refractor. Designed in 1947-1953 by Schusev A. and Svetlitsky P.

Memorial sign “Small basis of the Pulkovo geodesic school (center B)”.

Pavilion for the A.A. Mikhailov’s polar tube.

Pavilion for the V.P. Linnik’s small stellar interferometer.

East Pavilion for the N.N. Pavlov’s Time Service.

Pavilion for the Ponomarev-Maksutov’s horizontal solar telescope.

Pavilion for the Ponomarev-Maksutov’s horizontal solar telescope.

Seismic station. Designed in 1908-1910 by A. A. Poleschuk.

New star interferometer.

Pavilion for the astronomical power installation.

Pavilion for the horizontal meridian circle.

Other pavilions.

Pulkovo Observatory Hotel. Was built in 1953. Designed by V.Iakovlev and Enikeev D.

Residential buildings and a kindergarten.

Necropolis of the Pulkovo Observatory.

Park and nature on the Pulkovo mountain.

Military cemetery “Meridian Height”.

The memorial sign “Place of death of the gun crew”. Located near the Radio telescopes.

Military cemetery “Pulkovo”.