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Baikonur

The administrative center of the cosmodrome is the city of Baikonur. The Baikonur Cosmodrome is a unique scientific, technical and social complex, which has no equal. Over the 50 years of its existence, the Baikonur cosmodrome has become the largest in the world.

Alma-AtyBaikonur Cosmodrome is located in the Republic of Kazakhstan in the bend of the Syr Darya River. The spaceport has a total area of 6,717 square kilometers, a length of 75 km from north to south, and 90 km from west to east.

The Baikonur Cosmodrome consists of 9 launch complexes with 15 launchers, 11 assembly and test buildings for assembling and testing spacecraft, launch vehicles and upper stages, three filling stations for refueling vehicles, two airfields.

From the cosmodrome, launches of the RCS “proton”, the RCS “Zenith”, and the RCK “Soyuz” are conducted.

The world's first artificial satellite and the first artificial satellites of the Sun, the Moon and Venus were launched from Baikonur. It was from Baikonur that the world's first manned flight into space was carried out.

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