The Baikonur Cosmodrome is the world's first and largest operational space launch facility.

Members of the crew 33/34 long expedition to the ISS - Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Misurkin (Roscosmos) and Christopher Cassidy (NASA) visited the "Gagarin Gazebo" where April 10 of 1961, Russian space officials approved Yuri Gagarin to become the...
The western gates of the Baikonur city (the entrance from the airport "Krainy"). The mosaic panel has the unofficial name "Fisherman", since the cosmonaut seems to show the length of the caught fish.
Aerial photography by Nikita Popov   Baikonur, formerly known as Leninsk (also, see Tyuratam), is a city in Kazakhstan, rented and administered by the Russian Federation. It was constructed to service the Baikonur Cosmodrome and was officially ren...
The monument to the Soyuz carrier rocket in the city of Baikonur was installed in 1980, in honor of the 25th anniversary of the cosmodrome.