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Baikonur
Baikonur is a city in Kazakstan administered by Russia. It was constructed to service the Baikonur Cosmodrome and was officially renamed Baikonur in the 1990s. The original Baikonur is a mining town a few hundred kilometres northeast.
The fortunes of the city have varied according to those of the Soviet/Russian space program.
- RussianSpaceWeb.com on Baikonur town (http://www.russianspaceweb.com/baikonur_town)
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