Pulko'wa, a village of Russia, 10 miles S. of the site of a magnificent observatory (59° 46' 18" N. lat. and 30° 19' 40" E. long.), the 'St Petersburg observatory,' built by the Czar Nicholas in 1838-39. In 1882 one of the largest telescopes in the world was erected here.
Pulko'wa
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 487
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