Baikonur Kazakhstan city

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Baikonur Kazakhstan city overview

Baikonur cosmodrome subsections:

Baikonur cosmodrome history and photos

Baikonur cosmodrome features, projects and tours

Baikonur city coat of arms

Baikonur Kazakhstan city coat of arms picture

Baikonur city map location

Baikonur Kazakhstan city map location picture

Baikonur (formely Leninsk) is a city situated in Kzyl-Orda region (oblast) of Kazakhstan. Baikonur city is rented and administered by Russia. Baikonur city purpose is to maintain the Baikonur cosmodrome. The city was officially named Baikonur with the help of first Russian president Boris Yeltsin on December 20, 1995.

Baikonur Kazakhstan city population - 70,000 (2006).
Baikonur Kazakhstan city land area - 57 sq. km.
Baikonur Kazakhstan city phone code - +7-33622.
Baikonur Kazakhstan city postal code - 468320.

Baikonur city railway station - locomotive of the past

Baikonur Kazakhstan city railway station - locomotive of the past photo

Baikonur city An-12 airplane monument

Baikonur Kazakhstan city An-12 airplane monument photo

Baikonur city cafe "Arbat"

Baikonur Kazakhstan city cafe Arbat photo

Baikonur city ICBM monument

Baikonur Kazakhstan city ICBM monument photo

Baikonur Kazakhstan city history

On April 12, 1961, the whole world learned about the Kazakhstan steppes: it was here, from the Baikonur cosmodrome, that the spaceship "Vostok" with a cosmonaut on board was launched into space. Thus Yuri Gagarin, a citizen of the USSR became the first man ever to have stepped into the expanse of the universe.

Today Baikonur city has several launching complexes. Russian spaceships, artificial Earth satellites, and interplanetary probes are sent aloft here.