Novovagankovskiy pereulok, d. 5, str. 2  

55.758528, 37.568731 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Two-story house
Number on the yellow pipe
155

Историческая справка Рисунок к КП 723

The first location for celestial observatory in Moscow, a wooden structure on the roof of the university in Mokhovaya street, burned down in the fire in 1812. In 1830-31 a fully equipped observatory was built on the territory of the merchant Zoy Zosima’s estate (the merchant granted this territory to the university). The construction was initiated by the astronomy professor Dmitriy Perevoshchikov, who later became the rector of the university and also the director of the observatory for 20 years. The observatory was twice rebuilt — in 1854 and 1900. The tower got a rotating dome with a modern 15-inch astrographic telescope that still works. The Presnya observatory raised a pleiad of remarkable astronomers, three of them (Fyodor Bredikhin, Aristarkh Belopolskiy, and Aleksandr Mikhaylov) at different times headed the Pulkovo observatory, once the world’s largest one. In 1920 the observatory took the name of Pavel Shternberg, Bredikhin’s student, a Doctor of Astronomy, Honoured Professor of the university and a member of Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party. He helped with storing weapons left from the Presnya riots of 1905, and was one of leaders of the Moscow rebellion of 1917. Shternberg State University of Astronomy was created on an observatory basis on 1937, and later moved to a new building in Leninskie Gory. Since 1979 the observatory has held the status of an architectural monument and houses the Museum of History of Astronomy of Moscow State University. The last scientific observations here were made in 1990.

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