Science Feasts Whilst the Public Starves: A Note on the Reconstruction of the Pulkovo Observatory after World War II

See, for instance, among other sources cited herein, Batten Alan H. , Resolute and undertaking characters: The lives of Wilhelm and Otto Struve (Astrophysics and space science library, cxxxix; Dordrecht, 1988); Krisciunas Kevin , ‘A short history of Pulkovo Observatory’, Vistas in astronomy , xxii (1978), 27–37; Szanser Adam J. , ‘F. G. W. Struve (1793–1864): Astronomer at the Pulkovo Observatory’, Annals of science , xxviii (1972), 327–46; Mikhailov Aleksandr A. , ‘Pulkovo Observatory’, in Gingerich O. (ed.), Astrophysics and twentieth-century astronomy to 1950 (The general history of astronomy, iv/A; Cambridge, 1984), 119–22; Diukov I. A. , ‘Twenty-five years of Soviet astronomy’, Popular astronomy , lii (1944), 383–8; Reingold Nathan , ‘Cleveland Abbe at Pulkovo: Theory and practice in the nineteenth century physical sciences’, Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences , xvii (1964), 133–47; Cowan Frances M. , ‘An account of the founding of the Central Observatory of Pulkova, Russia’, Popular astronomy , xx (1912), 415–23; Dadaev Aleksandr N. , Pulkovo Observatory: An essay on its history and scientific activity (1972), trans. by Krisciunas K. (NASA Technical Memorandum no. 75083, Washington D.C., 1978); Dvoichenko-Markoff Eufrosina , ‘The Pulkovo Observatory and some American astronomers in the mid-ninteenth century’, Isis , xliii (1952), 243–6. Useful too are: ‘150 let Pulkovskoi observatorii’ (‘One century and a half of Pulkovo Observatory’), ed. by Abalakin Viktor K. (Leningrad, 1989); Struve F. G. W. , Description de l'observatoire astronomique central de Poulkova (St Petersburg, 1845). Eight papers (in Russian) reviewing the last 50 years of work at Pulkovo can be found in ‘Pulkovo Observatory and Nikolayev Observatory’, Izvestiya glavnoi astronomicheskoi observatorii v Pulkove , xxii (1965), 3–73.

Lavrinovich Kazimir K. , ‘Istoki Pulkovskogo phenomena: Posleslovie k jubileju’ (‘The sources of the Pulkovo phenomenon: Afterword to the anniversary’), Istoriko-astronomicheskie issledovaniia (Historical-astronomical investigations), xxiii (1992), 64–89.

Mikhailov , op. cit. (ref. 1).

This quotation is from Krisciunas Kevin , Astronomical centers of the world (Cambridge, 1988), 107.

Newcomb Simon , Reminiscences of an astronomer (Boston and New York, 1903), 309.

Krat Tatjana V. , ‘Perezitoe: Pulkovskaya observatoriya v 1938–1954’ (‘My Past Experience: Pulkovo Observatory in 1938–1954’), Istoriko-astronomicheskie issledovaniia (Historical-astronomical investigations), xxi (1989), 369–86.

Dadaev Alexander N. , ‘Vtoroe rozdenie Pulkova’ (‘The Second Birth of Pulkovo’), ibid. , 17–49.

Otkrytie vosstanovlennoi Pulkovskoi Observatorii (Inauguration of Pulkovo Observatory after reconstruction) [a collection of presentations and speeches] (USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow and Leningrad, 1955).

Dadaev , op. cit. (ref. 7).

Komarov to Stalin, and to Malenkov, regarding the Academy jubilee: Russian Centre for Storage and Studies of Documentation on the Contemporary History (former Party Central Committee Archive), stock 17, inventory 121, file 331, 54–56.

Russian Centre for Storage and Studies of the Documentation of Contemporary History, stock 17, inventory 125, file 359.

There is a misprint in Dadaev's presentation, op. cit. (ref. 7); the date of the decree is not 11 March as Dadaev wrote but 27 March 1945.

State Archive of the Russian Federation, stock 5446 N I, file 247.1.