Tour of the Baikonur Cosmodrome Bashny.Net

It is from here was launched Sputnik 1 - the first artificial satellite, was launched into orbit on October 4, 1957, and Vostok-1 - the first spacecraft to lift man into orbit.

For those who do not know (I hope there are not many) is the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Now spaceport serves as a platform for today's launches of carrier rockets, including for the needs of the ISS (International Space Station).

Let's start our tour of perhaps the Baikonur launch site and its surroundings.

Will be 40 photos!





Hotel in Baikonur, where some of the astronauts placed before and after the flight.



Flight engineer Karen Nyberg from NASA makes painting on the door of the hotel.



Spacecraft Soyuz TMA-05M roll out by train to the launch site., 2012.



Particularly dangerous zone



Priests bless the crew of the Union and the rocket itself, photos of 2012 and 2013.



Next. Photo



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Launching Soyuz TMA-05M in 2012



The launch complex energy and bucket Flame Reflector



Photos closer



Roll the launch pad on tracks for Energy and Buran



Mobile launch pad crawler for Energy and Buran



Abandoned objects and launching pads



Abandoned objects and launching pads



Abandoned objects



Abandoned objects



Abandoned launch pads



Abandoned launch pads



Abandoned launch pads



Mock Buran OK-M



In the cockpit



In the cockpit



Front view



Abandoned military buildings



The sign dedicated to the study of space on the main street



SC «Proton»



The full-size rocket Union, presented as an exhibit



In the vastness of Baikonur



On the streets you can find here are interesting things



Monument ballistic missile SS-17



The world - the world!



Apartment panel house with wall paintings on the space theme



Disco Club (formerly the House of Officers)



House Yuri Gagarin



The house



The statue of Yuri Gagarin



A bronze bust of Felix Dzerzhinsky (still known as Bloody Felix and Iron Felix), founder and first leader of the Soviet secret police, the Cheka.



Baikonur previously called Zarya village, town Leninsky, and after already Leninsk. His current name of the city received only in 1995.



1998 - The launch of the H-1 on the playground



Park for skateboarding



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