Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig pulkov.spb.RU. NS
Answer
pulkov.spb.RU. 5 NS ns.nalitch.spb.RU.
pulkov.spb.RU. 5 NS ns.pulkov.spb.RU.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns.pulkov.spb.RU. 5 A 178.252.64.1
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0