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Leninsk City, the capital of the cosmodrome, in 1995 renamed Baikonur. Today the population of Baikonur is 70 thousand people. Baikonur is situated in the heart of the vast Kazakh steppes. Baikonur (Baikonyr) - the name of geographical point on the map of Kazakhstan, where on the spurs of the mountains of Ulytau is located village Baikonur, which gave its name to the world famous cosmodrome.

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Welcome to the State educational institution "International Space School named after Vladimir Nikolaevich Chelomey", Baikonur city.

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Monument to the first cosmonaut Y. Gagarin was made on the draft of O. Pesotskikh and put in the park between the house of communications and building of the city administration. Also the street along which the astronauts enter the city from the airport named after Y.A Gagarin.

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Korolev is the first in a series of the founders of the city and cosmodrome. It is for his missile R-7 was selected location of the new test site. The square, named in his honor is situated at the intersection of the street 50 years of the Soviet Army and the Korolev Prospect (formerly Karl Marx). Here at Korolev Square is a monument, its authors have become a sculptor, A.P. Faydysh-Karandievsky and architect N. Asatur.

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