May 6, 2015
Categories: Baikonur Cosmodrome
Baikonur City Anniversary

60 years ago on May 6, 1955 the first building on the territory of Baikonur City was laid. The city was designated for spaceport  specialists to live in and had different names in different times: Zarya town , Zvezdograd town, Leninsk  city. Baikonur is an official name of the city since December 1995.

June 2, 1995 is considered to be official date of Baikonur foundation since it was on June 2 when USSR Ministry of Defense General Staff approved organization and establishment of the 5th  scientific and research test area by special directive.

More from this category:
August 31, 2022
Pre-flight press conference: Anna Kikina spoke about preparations for the flight on the CrewDragon spacecraft and the ISS-68 expedition

This July Roscosmos State Corp and NASA signed an agreement on cross-flights, under which American astronauts will fly on Russian Soyuz spacecrafts, and Russian cosmonauts…

full story
September 16, 2019
“Soyuz MS-15” assembled with a transfer compartment

Today, on September 16, 2019, in accordance with the training schedule the specialists of the RSC “Energia” (part of Roscosmos State Corporation) completed a series…

full story
April 16, 2019
Cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov is preparing at the GCTC for his space flight

The cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov continues training tests in the GCTC. Alexander Skvortsov is preparing to fly in the main crew, which is scheduled to start…

full story
July 3, 2013
Proton Crash won’t Affect Russia’s Position on the Launch Market

MOSCOW, July 2 – RIA-NOVOSTI. Proton-M with GLONASS satellites launch failure most likely won’t affect Russia’s position on the world space launches market , – space…

full story
February 4, 2015
Millimetron Observatory to be Launched to the Orbit by 2025

New Russian space observatory Millimetron is to be sent to the orbit in 2025. This unit will help gathering information on Universe processes, learn what…

full story
June 15, 2021
A new batch of OneWeb satellites arrives at Vostochny

A new batch of 36 OneWeb satellites was delivered to Ignatievo airport (Blagoveshchensk) by an An-124-100 aircraft on Thursday. The specialists of the Space Center…

full story
July 18, 2014
Desert Survival Trainings for the Cosmonauts

Group of cosmonauts (admission 2012) started survival trainings under desert or near desert conditions at Baikonur. Several days ago they had a theoretical course and…

full story
April 8, 2013
BY THE END OF THIS DECADE RUSSIA WILL BE THE ONLY COUNTRY TO SEND CREW TO THE ISS

By the end of this decade Russia will be the only country able to send the crews to the ISS, Roscosmos manned space programs Head…

full story