In Baikonur Tour: City you will learn the history of the construction of the Baikonur City. In the Baikonur City you will view the most interesting space monuments and memorials. These are monuments: Sergei Korolev (creator of the Soyuz rocket and Soyuz spacecraft), to Yuri Gagarin (the first man in space), Vladimir Glushko (creator of the rocket engines), Yuri Barmin (launching complex for the Soyuz and Proton rockets), Mikhail Yangel (creator of the Zenit rocket), Georgy Shubnikov (first constructor of the Baikonur Cosmodrome and Baikonur City) and others. You will visit the Cosmonaut's Alley and will touch the "Pioneers" obelisk.

In Baikonur Tour: City besides the monuments to the Russian/Soviet Space Program leaders you will see:

• real Soyuz rocket
• pavilion, where, according to legend, Sergei Korolev and Yuri Gagarin spoke the night before the first launch into space
• Cosmonaut Hotel, where the cosmonauts/astronauts spend the hours and days before their flights in the Soyuz spacecraft
• pedestrian area of the Baikonur City

Baikonur Tour: City is included to the Baikonur Launch Tour: Soyuz, Baikonur Tour: All of Cosmodrome and Baikonur Launch Tour: Progress.

The excursion to the Baikonur City can be organized before or after visit to the space objects of the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

The tourists traveling along the Silk Road may take part in the Baikonur Tour: City and also see the space objects of the Baikonur Cosmodrome (by individual Program). Therefore please contact us to find out the prices for individual and group tours.

Please, contact RusAdventures before Baikonur Tour: City if you are interested in:

• tour to the Space Museum of the Baikonur City.

Baikonur Tour: City

The Baikonur City, also known as Zarya, Leninskiy, Leninsk and Zvezdograd, was the Soviet and is now the Russian Space Center. The construction of the city was done at considerable expense. This allowed the building of a modern town in a semi-desert in a short period of time, in which engineers, specialists and technicians live and operate Àssembly building vehicles, Launching pads and operations of the Cosmodrome (Baikonur: Map and Plan). For their families, kindergartens, schools, a branch of the Moscow Aviation Institute, supermarkets, cinemas, cafes and restaurants were built.
 

• entry permit for the Baikonur City, Kazakhstan
• transfers between space monuments and memorials Baikonur City
• an excursion on the Baikonur City (1.5 - 2.0 hours)
• guide-interpreter (English, German, French)
• representative of the Baikonur Tour: City as an escort (compulsory)
• photo and video shooting in the Baikonur Tour: City

Mr.Paul Kraut, Mr.Philipp Meurser and Mr.Heinrich Stumpp (Germany) travelling along the Silky Way saw the main space monuments of the Baikonur as participants of Baikonur Tour: City.

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