Baikonur

Baikonur (Kazakh: [Байқоңыр, Bayqoñır ] ; [Байконур, Baykonur] ), umwhile kent as Leninsk, is a ceety in Kazakhstan, rentit an admeenistered bi the Roushie Federation. It wis constructit tae service the Baikonur Cosmodrome an wis offeecially renamit Baikonur bi Roushie preses Boris Yeltsin on December 20, 1995. The shape o the aurie rentit is an ellipse, measurin 90 kilometres east tae wast, bi 85 kilometres north tae sooth, wi the cosmodrome at the centre. The oreeginal Baikonur (Kazakh for "wealthy brown", i.e. "fertile land wi mony herbs") is a mining toun a few hunder kilometres northeast, near Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan's Karagandy Province. Stairtin wi Vostok 1 in Aprile 1961, the launch steid wis gien this name tae cause confusion an keep the location secret. (The oreeginal Baikonur's residents teuk advantage o the confusion bi orderin an receivin much scarce materials afore govrenment offeecials discovered the deception.) The new Baikonur's railwey station predates the base an retains the auld name o Tyuratam. The fortunes o the ceety hae varied accordin tae those o the Soviet/Roushie space program an its Baikonur Cosmodrome. The Soviet govrenment established the Nauchno-Issledovatel'skii Ispytatel'nyi Poligon N.5 (NIIIP-5), or Scienteefic-Research Test Range N.5 bi its decree o 12 Februar 1955. The U-2 heich-altitude reconnaissance plane foond an photographed for the first time the Tyuratam missile test range (cosmodrome Baikonur) on 5 August 1957. See richt for a composite satellite image o the early Tyuratam launch complex, the cosmodrome (30 Mey 1962). See an aw Baikonur Cosmodrome References Freemit airtins RussianSpaceWeb.com on Baikonur town Baikonur cosmodrome placemark Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine Launch of the manned spacecraft Soyuz from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Archived 2012-03-01 at the Wayback Machine