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Pulkovo Heights (Russian:Пу́лковские высо́ты) is a chain of hills located to the south ofSaint Petersburg. They run to the south-west in the direction of theIzhora Plateau and have an altitude of up to 73 meters.
InNeolithic times (about 7500–5000 years ago) Pulkovo heights wereLittorina Sea coast. Its bottom is a modern Neva Lowland with stretching on her St. Petersburg. The ancient sea gradually retreated and took the place of the currentBaltic Sea. Apparently, the place abounded with impassable forests and swamps. Thick forest covered the Pulkovo heights, but it was gradually cut down.
In the 18th century, located at the foot of Pulkovo village of Gallerovo, Tolmachevo, Pesky, Lower and Upper Koyerovo, Kamen, Kiskino, Glinyanaya Gora, a neighborhood on the site of Pulkovo – Pulkovo village, founded in 1714 at the Pulkovo Manor. A road ran from Pulkovo Koporye in Ladoga.
On 12 November 1917, during theOctober Revolution,Alexander Kerensky andPyotr Krasnov, commanding 700Cossacks of the3rd Cavalry Corps, were forced to retreat back toGatchina Palace after being stopped at Pulkovo Heights by Red forces.[1]
The hills were used as a natural defense line during theRussian Civil War and thesiege of Leningrad, when the Germans occupied the hills from September 1941 to January 1944. It is the location of thePulkovo Observatory and theindustrial suburb ofShushary.
59°46′19″N30°19′34″E / 59.771811°N 30.326047°E /59.771811; 30.326047
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