< 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
PULKOVO, or PULKOWA, a village of Russia, in the government of St Petersburg, 10 m. S. of the city of St Petersburg. Pop. 2000. It contains the Pulkovo observatory, on a hill 248 ft. high, in 59° 46′ 18″ N. and 30° 19′ 40″ E. It was built in 1833–1839.
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