Baikonur Kazakhstan city
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Baikonur Kazakhstan city overview
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Baikonur city coat of arms
Baikonur city map location
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 city An-12 airplane monument
Baikonur city cafe "Arbat"
Baikonur city ICBM monument
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.
Baikonur city views
Baikonur city church
Baikonur city symbol
Baikonur city street art
Baikonur city first spaceship monument