Kamenskoe Plateau Observatory

Observatory Kamenskoe Plateau
Observatory code 210 
LocationKamenskoe Plateau, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Coordinates43°10′36″N 76°57′58″E / 43.17669°N 76.96614°E / 43.17669; 76.96614
Altitude1450
Established1947 
Location of Observatory Kamenskoe Plateau
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Observatory "Kamenskoe Plateau" (Russian: Каменское плато) is an astronomical observatory founded in 1947 at the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute. In 1948, Gavriil Tikhov headed an independent institution - the astrobotany sector of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR - and founded his own observatory. After Tikhov's death in 1960, the astrobotany sector was disbanded. The observatory is located in the grounds of the Fesenkov Institute.

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